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Berlin Serbian Psalter

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Berlin Serbian Psalter
Берлински српски псалтир
Berlinski srpski psaltir
Page of the manuscript
PurposeSerbian Orthodox gospel

Berlin Serbian Psalter (Serbian: Берлински српски псалтир, romanizedBerlinski srpski psaltir) is a Serbian Orthodox manuscript in Old Serbian in Serbian Cyrillic script from the early 14th century. It contains various apocryphal and theological texts, including those by Chernorisets Chrabr. The manuscript consists of 138 parchment leaves measuring 19.5 × 14 cm and is a Serbian copy of a Central Bulgarian text from the 13th century.

It was found in the first half of the 19th century by the Serbian philologist Vuk Karadžić. In 1858 he gave it to the Prussian Royal Library in Berlin. 135 leaves are now in the Prussian Cultural Heritage State Library in Berlin, signature Ms. Slav. Wuk 48, three leaves in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, signature O. п. I.15.

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  • Heinz Miklas, Lora Taseva, Marija Jovceva (Hrsg.): Berlinski Sbornik: Vollständige Studienausgabe im Originalformat, Anh. v. V. M. Zagrebin. Graz, 1988 (mit Bibliographie) Einleitung
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