Codex Marianus

E134009

Glagolitic manuscript Gospel manuscript Old Church Slavonic manuscript medieval manuscript

Codex Marianus is an early Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important monuments of Slavic medieval literature.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Gospel Book	2
Codex Marianus canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1040564 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Codex Marianus
Context triple: [Glagolitic script, earliestManuscripts, Codex Marianus]

A. Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
B. Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus is a vast collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, sketches, and writings covering subjects from art and anatomy to engineering and scientific inventions.
C. Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
D. Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
E. Codex Zographensis
Codex Zographensis is a late 10th–11th century Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important early Slavic literary monuments.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Codex Marianus
Target entity description: Codex Marianus is an early Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important monuments of Slavic medieval literature.

A. Codex Vaticanus
Codex Vaticanus is a 4th-century Greek biblical manuscript held in the Vatican Library and regarded as one of the oldest and most important witnesses to the text of the Bible.
B. Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus is a vast collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, sketches, and writings covering subjects from art and anatomy to engineering and scientific inventions.
C. Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, notable as one of the oldest and most complete surviving copies of both the Old and New Testaments.
D. Codex Boturini
Codex Boturini is a pre-Hispanic Aztec pictorial manuscript that chronicles the Mexica migration and the legendary origins of Tenochtitlan.
E. Codex Zographensis
Codex Zographensis is a late 10th–11th century Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscript, written in the Glagolitic script and considered one of the most important early Slavic literary monuments.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Glagolitic manuscript ⓘ Gospel manuscript ⓘ Old Church Slavonic manuscript ⓘ medieval manuscript ⓘ
approximateDate	early 11th century ⓘ late 10th century ⓘ
associatedWith	Balkan Sprachbund ⓘ surface form: Bulgarian-Macedonian linguistic area Macedonian recension of Old Church Slavonic ⓘ
catalogCode	F. 87, No. 1 ⓘ
containsTextOf	Gospel of John ⓘ Gospel of Luke ⓘ Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ
country	Russia ⓘ
currentCity	Moscow ⓘ
currentLocation	Russian State Library ⓘ
dateOfOrigin	11th century ⓘ
decoration	simple initials ⓘ
genre	Gospel book ⓘ
hasPart	Gospel pericopes ⓘ
language	Church Slavonic ⓘ surface form: Old Church Slavonic
material	parchment ⓘ
numberOfFolios	175 ⓘ
placeOfOrigin	Balkan region ⓘ Eastern Adriatic area ⓘ
preservationStatus	partially preserved ⓘ
relatedTo	Codex Zographensis ⓘ Old Church Slavonic Bible ⓘ surface form: Old Church Slavonic canon of Gospels
religiousCanon	Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Orthodox Christianity
religiousTextType	Gospels ⓘ surface form: New Testament Gospels
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ
religiousUse	Gospel lectionary ⓘ liturgical reading ⓘ
scriptColor	brown ink ⓘ
scriptDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
scriptFamily	Glagolitic script ⓘ surface form: Glagolitic alphabet
scriptType	uncial ⓘ
significance	important monument of Slavic medieval literature ⓘ key source for the study of Glagolitic script ⓘ key source for the study of Old Church Slavonic language ⓘ one of the oldest preserved Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscripts ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline	Slavistics ⓘ paleography ⓘ philology ⓘ
textType	biblical text ⓘ
writingMaterial	vellum ⓘ
writingSystem	Glagolitic script ⓘ
writingSystemType	alphabet ⓘ
writingSystemUsage	Old Church Slavonic Glagolitic tradition ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Glagolitic script → earliestManuscripts → Codex Marianus ⓘ

Little Entrance → centralObjectCarried → Codex Marianus ⓘ

this entity surface form: Gospel Book

Entrance Hymn (Eisodikon) → associatedWithObject → Codex Marianus ⓘ