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unusual facts about Church Slavonic



Radoslav Katičić

Katičić has charted the meanderings in the continuity of Croatian language and literature, from the earliest stone inscriptions and Glagolitic medieval literature in the Croatian recension of Church Slavonic to the works of Renaissance writers such as Marin Držić and Marko Marulić, who wrote in a Croatian vernacular.


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Belgrade Prophetologion

It is written in Old Serbian (Old Church Slavonic) with mainly Rascian orthography and some orthographic features connecting it to Zeta and Hum manuscripts and Macedonian antecedents.

Codex Zographensis

The first few ones have not been preserved, and thus it begins with Matthew 3:11 and ends with John, with Mt 16:20-24:20 being later insertion in old Macedonian Church Slavonic.

Stjepan Damjanović

In 1971 he served as an assistant to the professor Eduard Hercigonja at the Department for Old Church Slavonic (today called Department for Old Church Slavonic language and Croatian Glagolitic), since 1982 serving as a docent and since 1986 as a regular professor.