The Saint George the Zograf Monastery or Zograf Monastery is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in the North Aegean region of Greece. It was founded in the late 9th or early
External view of the monastery
Page from the Codex Zographensis
French mission in the monastery, 1917, during WWI
The Codex Zographensis is an illuminated Old Church Slavonic canon manuscript. It is composed of 304 parchment folios; the first 288 are written in Glagolitic containing Gospels and organised as Tetra
Zograf Monastery
…they celebrate as October 10 currently falls on October 23 of the modern Gregorian Calendar. Today the Monastery has 15 monks. Library Page from the Codex Zographensis The Zograf Monastery houses a library of major significance to Bulgarian culture, preserving medieval manuscripts such as a 15th-century copy of the…
A page from the Codex Zographensis with text of the Gospel according to St Luke XIV, 19-24 (Zograf monastery, Ms. глаг. 1, f.187v)