The is a 14-folio

Glagolitic The Glagolitic script (, , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessalonica. He and his brother Saint Methodius were sent by the Byzan ...

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, written in the eleventh century. What remained of an originally very large codex, having probably 552 folios (1104 pages), are 14 folios containing five

homilies A homily (from Greek ὁμιλία, ''homilía'') is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, giving the "public explanation of a sacred doctrine" or text. The works of Origen and John Chrysostom (known as Paschal Homily) are considered ex ...

. Two of the homilies are complete; one by

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and one by

Athanasius of Alexandria Athanasius I of Alexandria, ; cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲥ or Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲁ̅; (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, ...

, and three of them are fragments, one by John Chrysostom, one by

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and one that is usually attributed to Methodius. Four 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 of the

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, who used the codex as a house

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(it was bound with silver and gold) in worship, believing

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to be the author. Count Cloz donated the codex to the City Museum in

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, where the first 12 folios are being kept today. The remaining 2 folios, discovered by Slovene Slavist

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, are kept in the

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museum in

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. Linguists somewhat disagree when discussing the source of the text; some, arguing on the similarity of the rounded Glagolitic with Sinaitic codices (

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, Euchologium Sinaiticum), hold that the manuscript originated in Macedonia, and others that it was written in

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, justifying it with the change of ''ь'' to ''ъ'' behind palatal ''č'', ''ž'', ''št'' and ''žd'', a trait commonly found in other Croatian Glagolitic mediaeval manuscripts. The reasonable conclusion that follows is that the manuscript was copied on the Croatian territory from the original written in Macedonia. The text was first published by Jernej B. Kopitar (Vienna 1836, the first 12 folios), together with the Freising Fragments and the manuscript ''De conversione Bagaorium et Carantanorum''. Franz Miklosich 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 a dictionary.

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Glagolita Clozianus
1836 edition by Bartholomaeus Kopitar, freely available on

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Zum Glagolita Clozianus
1860 edition by Franz Miklosich, freely available on

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Facsimile of the 2 folios from Innsbruck

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