Charter of Hilandar ( sr, Хиландарска повеља) is the founding

charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the re ...

of the Hilandar monastery, the cradle of the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

and main endowment of

Stefan Nemanja Stefan Nemanja (Serbian Cyrillic: , ; – 13 February 1199) was the Grand Prince ( Veliki Župan) of the Serbian Grand Principality (also known as Raška, lat. ) from 1166 to 1196. A member of the Vukanović dynasty, Nemanja founded the Nema ...

and

Saint Sava Saint Sava ( sr, Свети Сава, Sveti Sava, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; gr, Άγιος Σάββας; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1236), known as the Enlightener, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalou ...

. It was written in 1198, while the second revision, of Stefan the First-Crowned in 1200–01. Until 1896, the oldest Serbian charter in the Hilandar archives was the founding charter of Hilandar, while the oldest manuscript book in the Hilandar library was

Miroslav's Gospel Miroslav Gospel ( sr, Мирослављево jеванђеље / Miroslavljevo jevanđelje, ) is a 362-page Serbian illuminated manuscript Gospel Book on parchment with very rich decorations. It is one of the oldest surviving documents written ...

. Both charters are written in Serbian recension of Church Slavonic (literary) language, but the

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is present in the parts where the gifts to Hilandar are discussed. The original version of Stefan II's revision is located in the Hilandar.

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* *{{cite web, title=Hilandarska povelja Simeona Nemanje, work=Sveti Sava: Sabrani spisi, publisher=Projekt Rastko, language=sr, url=http://www.rastko.rs/knjizevnost/liturgicka/svsava-sabrana/svsava-sabrana_02.html Hilandar 1198 establishments in Europe 12th-century establishments in Serbia History of the Serbian Orthodox Church Medieval Athos Athos manuscripts Nemanjić dynasty Hilandar Monastery

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