Editing Old Church Slavonic (section)

==Canon==
The core corpus of Old Church Slavonic manuscripts is usually referred to as ''canon''. Manuscripts must satisfy certain linguistic, chronological and cultural criteria to be incorporated into the canon: they must not significantly depart from the language and tradition of Saints Cyril and Methodius, usually known as the ''Cyrillo-Methodian tradition''.

For example, the [[Freising Fragments]], dating from the 10th century, show some linguistic and cultural traits of Old Church Slavonic, but they are usually not included in the canon, as some of the phonological features of the writings appear to belong to certain Pannonian Slavic dialect of the period. Similarly, the [[Ostromir Gospels]] exhibits dialectal features that classify it as [[East Slavic languages|East Slavic]], rather than South Slavic so it is not included in the canon either. On the other hand, the [[Kiev Missal]] is included in the canon even though it manifests some West Slavic features and contains Western liturgy because of the Bulgarian linguistic layer and connection to the Moravian mission.

Manuscripts are usually classified in two groups, depending on the alphabet used, Cyrillic or Glagolitic. With the exception of the Kiev Missal and Glagolita Clozianus, which exhibit West Slavic and Croatian features respectively, all Glagolitic texts are assumed to be of the Macedonian recension:
[[File:ZographensisColour.jpg|right|200px|thumb|About two-thirds of the Old Church Slavonic canon is written in the Glagolitic alphabet]]
* [[Kiev Missal]] (Ki, KM), 7 folios, late 10th century
* [[Codex Zographensis]], (Zo), 288 folios, 10th or 11th century
* [[Codex Marianus]] (Mar), 173 folios, early 11th century
* [[Codex Assemanius]] (Ass), 158 folios, early 11th century
* [[Psalterium Sinaiticum]] (Pas, Ps. sin.), 177 folios, 11th century
* [[Euchologium Sinaiticum]] (Eu, Euch), 109 folios, 11th century
* [[Glagolita Clozianus]] (Clo, Cloz), 14 folios, 11th century
* Ohrid Folios (Ohr), 2 folios, 11th century
* Rila Folios (Ri, Ril), 2 folios and 5 fragments, 11th century

All Cyrillic manuscripts are of the Preslav recension ([[Preslav Literary School]]) and date from the 11th century except for the Zographos, which is of the Ohrid recension ([[Ohrid Literary School]]):

* [[Sava's book]] (Sa, Sav), 126 folios
* [[Codex Suprasliensis]], (Supr), 284 folios
* [[Enina Apostle]] (En, Enin), 39 folios
* Hilandar Folios (Hds, Hil), 2 folios
* Undol'skij's Fragments (Und), 2 folios
* Macedonian Folio (Mac), 1 folio
* Zographos Fragments (Zogr. Fr.), 2 folios
* Sluck Psalter (Ps. Sl., Sl), 5 folios