Mihanović’s fragment of the Acts of the Apostles (Serbo-Croatian: Михановићев одломак Апостолa, Mihanovićev odlomak Apostola) is medieval South Slavic codex, and one of the oldest preserved Glagolitic manuscripts written in Old Church Slavonic, a passage from the Acts of the Apostles.
Features of the Serbian vernacular appear in it, and the Serbian recension of Old Church Slavonic would later develop under this influence. It is considered, on the basis of some language features (e.g. replacement of the letter f with the letter p , i.e. Stepan instead of Stefan) and the Glagolitic alphabet itself, that it originated at the end of 11th century or early 12th century in Bosnia or Zeta or Zahumlje.[1] [2]
The manuscript itself consists of two sheets of parchment, 24 cm × 18.5 cm in size, on which is inscribed the part of Acts of the Apostles, according to the Eastern Orthodox rite and is related, in place and time of origin, to the so-called Gršković’s fragment of the Acts of the Apostles.[3]
Manuscript was found glued on the cover of a 1262 Serbian transcript of Ilovička krmčija, Zakonopravilo, in the collection of Cyrillic manuscripts of Antun Mihanović,[3] and is considered the oldest preserved transcript, collection of civil and ecclesiastical regulations of the Byzantine Empire, which was translated by Saint Sava at the beginning of the 13th century.[citation needed]
Legacy
According to Croatian linguist Vatroslav Jagić, the Mihanović’s fragment along with Gršković’s fragment represents few survived glagolitic Serbian Orthodox rite codices.[4] The book is enumerated in the Bosnian[5] and Serbian[6] historical medieval literary corpus.
Today, the artifact is kept in the library of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Savić 2016, p. 274(44).
- ↑ Trifunović, Đorđe (1990). Azbučnik srpskih srednjevekovnih književnih pojmova (2. ed.). Belgrade: Nolit.
- 1 2 3 “Mihanovićev odlomak apostola”. Croatian Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Savić 2016, p. 277(47), 272(42)-273(43), … Ватрослав Јагић устврђује „да је овај глаголски апостол чинио службу у некој православној српској цркви“, а не код каквих „богумила“ [Jagić 1893: 55–56]. …translation: Vatroslav Jagić asserts “that this Glagolitic apostle served in some Orthodox Serbian church”, and not with some “Bogomils” [Jagić 1893: 55–56]..
- ↑ Kuna 2008, p. 152.
- ↑ Savić 2016, p. 2 (p. 1), .В данной статье очерчены рамки рецепции климентовской традиции в сла- вянской книжности северного, сербского, ареала, рассмотрены основные серб- ские памятники, как глаголические, так и кириллические: они могут быть по- ставлены в тесную связь с литературной традицией св. Климента. … Дан- ный список памятников начинается Мариинским Евангелием и продолжа- ется Мирославовым Евангелием, фрагментами Апостолов Михановича и Герш- ковича, Братковой минеей, Иерусалимским палимпсестом и Белградским па- римейником, а заканчивается сербским паримейником из С.-Петербурга и Киева. Учитывая, что сербский разговорный язык в конце XI в., вскоре после создания сербской редакции церковнославянского языка. translation: This article outlines the framework for the reception of the Clementine tradition in the Slavic literature of the northern, Serbian, area, and examines the main Serbian monuments, both Glagolitic and Cyrillic: they can be placed in close connection with the literary tradition of St. Clement. … This list of monuments begins with the Mary Gospel and continues with the Miroslav Gospel, fragments of the Apostles Mikhanovic and Gershkovic, the Bratkova Menaion, the Jerusalem Palimpsest, and the Belgrade Parimeinikum, and concludes with the Serbian Parimeinikum from St. Petersburg and Kyiv. Considering that the Serbian spoken language at the end of the 11th century, soon after the creation of the Serbian redaction of Church Slavonic..
Sources
- Savić, Viktor (2016). Српска редакција црквенословенског језика: од св. Климента, епископа словенског, до св. Саве, архиепископа српског [The Serbian Redaction of the Church Slavonic Language: from St. Clement, the Bishop of the Slavs, to St. Sava, the Serbian Archbishop]. Slověn : International Journal of Slavic Studies (in Serbian (Cyrillic script)). 5 (2): 231–339. hdl:21.15107/rcub_dais_14490. Retrieved 28 September 2025.
- Kuna, Herta (2008). Srednjovjekovna bosanska književnost [Medieval Bosnian literature] (in Bosnian). International Forum Bosnae. ISSN 1512-5122.
- Žagar, Mateo (2008). “Grafetičke posebnosti tekstova istočne grane hrvatskoga glagoljaštva” [Graphetic specialities of the texts of the eastern branch of the Croatian Glagolitism]. Slovo (56–57). Zagreb: Staroslavenski institut: 695–708. ISSN 1849-1049.