The Svrljig Gospel Passages
The Svrljig Gospel Passages

Summary/Abstract: A transcript of the Gospel, made in the town of Svrljig (Eastern Serbia) in 1279, remained preserved in fragments of some eleven sheets of parchment. The parchments were discovered in 1866 in the church premises in the village of lzvor (near Svrljig). They have been kept in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ever since. Many have written about those Passages and analyzed their linguistic and graphic features, among them: M. Đ. Milićević, J. Šafarik, St. Novaković, G. A. Voskresensky, Lj. Stojanović, and G. A. Ilynsky. The Passages represent an important document of cultural (religious) history. They were written in the Serbian version of Old Church Slavic. They have been dated (1279) and localized by the note of Vojsilo Gramatik, one of its transcribers, which was found in the eleventh sheet of the preserved parchments. The note makes the Passages even more valuable to the science with regard to their antiquity. The Workshop For Ethnological And Cultural Studies in Svrljig published the Svrljig Gospel Passages (Svrljig - Niš, 1994) mostly with the help of its founder and manager Professor Sreten Petrović, Ph. D. The deluxe edition of the Passages contains the introductory note of the editor (S. Petrović) and a detailed study of the expounder, Nikola Rodić, MA, who gave the transcript (the new reading) of the Passages, apart from their background, description of graphic features and analysis of linguistic characteristics. This worked-out text is displayed alongside with the photoprints of each original sheet.

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