Kiev Missal

Kiev Missal
Pages with Glagolitic writing (Kiev Missal). Copy. Kiev History Museum
Created10th century
Discovered19th century
Present locationKyiv

The Kiev Missal (or Kiev Fragments or Kiev Folios; scholarly abbreviation Ki) is a seven-folio Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript containing parts of the Roman-rite liturgy. It is usually held to be the oldest and the most archaic Old Church Slavonic manuscript,[1] and is dated at no later than the latter half of the 10th century.[2] Seven parchment folios have been preserved in small format (c.14.5 cm × 10.5 cm) of easily portable book to be of use to missionaries on the move.

Folio 7r.
The third folio of Kiev Missal
  1. ^ Lunt (2001:9) "The seven glagolitic folia known as the Kiev Folia (KF) are generally considered as most archaic from both the paleographic and the linguistic points of view..."
  2. ^ Damjanović (2003:15)

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