Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cy
The first lines of the Book of Matthew in Karelian using the Cyrillic script, 1820
The Glagolitic script is the oldest-known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Cyr
Cyrillic alphabets
…Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script. The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the theologians Cyril and Methodius. Cyrillic is one of the most-used writing systems in the world. The script was created at the Preslav…
A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke
The Baška tablet, found in the 19th century on Krk, conventionally dated to about 1100
The first page of the Gospel of Mark from the 10th–11th century Codex Zographensis, found in the Zograf Monastery in 1843
In a book printed in 1591, Angelo Rocca attributed the Glagolitic script to Saint Jerome.