Kiev Missal

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The Kiev Missal is an early medieval liturgical book written in the Glagolitic script, representing one of the oldest surviving monuments of Slavic Christian worship.

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Label Occurrences
Glagolitic Missal 1
Kiev Missal canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf liturgical book
medieval manuscript
missal
approximateDate 10th century
late 9th century to early 10th century
associatedWith Christianization of the Slavs
early Slavic missions
contains Mass texts
liturgical formulas
prayers
countryOfDiscovery Ukraine
culturalContext Slavic Christian culture
denomination Slavic Orthodox Churches
surface form: Slavic Christianity
genre missal
historicalImportance evidence for early use of Glagolitic script in liturgy
evidence of early Western-rite influence among Slavs
language Old Church Slavonic
liturgicalRite Latin rite influence
Western liturgical tradition
material parchment
namedAfter Kyiv
origin Slavic-speaking Christian community
preservationStatus fragmentary
region Eastern Europe
Kyivan Rus
surface form: Kievan Rusʼ
relatedTo Kiev Missal self-linksurface differs
surface form: Glagolitic Missal

Old Church Slavonic liturgical books
religiousAffiliation Catholic tradition (Slavic usage)
religiousTradition Christianity
script Glagolitic script
significance important source for the history of Slavic liturgy
important source for the study of Old Church Slavonic
one of the earliest Glagolitic liturgical manuscripts
one of the oldest surviving monuments of Slavic Christian worship
subject Christian liturgy
Christianization of the Slavs
surface form: Slavic Christianity

medieval church history
timePeriod early Middle Ages
typeOfText liturgical prose
use Eucharistic liturgy
Mass
usedBy Slavic clergy
usedFor celebration of the Mass
writingSystem Glagolitic script
writingSystemType alphabetic

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Kiev Missal relatedTo Kiev Missal self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Glagolitic Missal