''Tetraevangelion'' ( el, τετραευαγγέλιον, "Four Evangelia/

Gospel Books Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

"; ka, ოთხთავი, ''ot'kht'avi''; Old Slavonic: благовѣствованиѥ; bg, Четвероевангелие; sr, Четворојеванђеље) is a name used in Eastern Orthodox terminology for the

Canonical gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...

of the Four Evangelists. Examples of notable medieval manuscripts include: *

Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander, or Four Gospels of Ivan Alexander ( bg, Четвероевангелие на (цар) Иван Александър, transliterated as ''Chetveroevangelie na (tsar) Ivan Aleks ...

(1355–56), Bulgarian, illuminated. *

Jakov of Serres Jakov of Serres ( sr, Јаков Серски; 1300–1365) was a medieval Serbian writer, scholar, translator, and hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, one of the most important men of letters working in the 14th century. Biography Evidence ...

' (1354), Serbian, illuminated. * Vani Gospels (12–13th c.), Georgian, illuminated. *

Mstislav Gospel Mstislav Gospel is a 12th-century manuscript of the four Gospels on parchment in Old Church Slavonic. It is kept in the State Historical Museum in Moscow. The manuscript contains the text of the four Gospels on 213 parchment leaves (35.3 by 28.6&n ...

(12th c.), Russian, illuminated. *

Codex Marianus The ''Codex Marianus'' is an Old Church Slavonic fourfold Gospel Book written in Glagolitic script, dated to the beginning of the 11th century, which is (along with Codex Zographensis), one of the oldest manuscript witnesses to the Old Church Slav ...

(11th c.), South Slavic. One of the oldest Slavic ''tetraevangelia''. *

Codex Zographensis The ''Codex Zographensis'' (or ''Tetraevangelium Zographense''; scholarly abbreviation ''Zo'') is an illuminated Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript. It is composed of 304 parchment folios; the first 288 are written in Glagolitic containing Gospe ...

(10–11th c.), South Slavic, illuminated. Oldest Slavic ''tetraevangelion''.

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*{{cite book, author=Francis Watson, title=Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCh9kPyvhaEC&pg=PA584, date=26 May 2013, publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, isbn=978-0-8028-4054-7, pages=584– Eastern Orthodoxy Canonical Gospels Greek words and phrases