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The
Glagolita Clozianus is a 14-folio
Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic canon miscellany, written in the eleventh century.
What remained of an originally very large codex having probably 552 folios (1104 pages) are 14 folios containing 5
homilies. Two of the homilies are complete; one by
John Chrysostom and one by
Athanasius of Alexandria, and 3 of them are fragments, one by John Chrysostom, one by
Epiphanius of Salamis and one that is usually attributed to
Methodius. 4 of those homilies are known from other Old Church Slavonic codices, the exception being the one usually attributed to St. Methodius, which is found only in Clo, and sometimes referred to as the
Anonymous Homily.
The codex was named after the Count
Paris Cloz who owned it in the first half of the 19th century. Prior to that, up until the end of the 15th century, it was owned by the Croatian nobles
Frankopan, who worshipped the codex as a house relict (it was bound with silver and gold), having held St.
Jerome as the author. Count Cloz donated the codex to the City Museum in
Trent, where the first 12 folios are being kept today. The remaining 2 folios, discovered by Slovene Slavist
Franc Miklošič, are kept in the
Ferdinandeum museum in
Innsbruck.
Linguist somewhat disagree when discussing the source of the text; some, arguing on the similarity of the rounded Glagolitic with Sinaitic codices (
Psalterium Sinaiticum,
Euchologium Sinaiticum), hold that the manuscript originated in
Macedonia, and others that it was written in
Croatia, justifying it with the change of
ь to
ъ behind palatal
č,
ž,
št and
žd, a trait commonly found in other Croatian Glagolitic mediæval manuscripts. The reasonable conclusion that follows is that the mansucript was copied on the Croatian territory from the original written in Macedonia.
The text was first published by
Bartol Kopitar (Vienna 1836, the first 12 folios), together with the
Freising Fragments and the manuscript
De conversioe Bagaorium et Carantanorum. Franc Miklošič published two folios from Innsbruck in 1860, and both pieces were published together by I. I. Sreznjevski in 1866. Critical edition with Ancient Greek originals was published by
Václav Vondrák (
Glagolita Clozùv 1893) and finally by
Antonín Dostál (
Clozianus, staroslověnsky hlaholský sborník tridentský a innsbrucký, Prague 1959). Dostal's edition contains photographs, Cyrillic transcription, Ancient Greek original, translations to Czech and the dictionary