e), as well as the occasional disappearance of epenthetic l, suggests Macedonian provenience. According to F. Curta, the book was "certainly of Macedonian origin", written "either in Ohrid or in one of the monastic centers in the region." According to H. G. Lunt, "Certain deviations from the theoretical norms indicate Macedonian influences, others possibly Serbian (if not northern Macedonian)". There are a number of arguments that link the Codex Marianus with Bulgarian territory that bordered that of Serbia. It is difficult to answer whether the Codex was created before the end of the First Bulgarian Empire (1018), or after its Byzantine conquest, i.e. into the theme of Bulgaria. Lunt proposed the 1030s, but David Diringer dates it from the late 10th century. Legacy The book is enumerated in Bulgarian and Serbian historical literary corpus. Codex forms the base text for the contemporary rendition of the New Testament on the basis of the Slavic recensions in the series Novum Testamentum Palaeoslovenice. See also List of Glagolitic manuscripts Notes References External links Codex Marianus: images of the original manuscript, at Collected Manuscripts and Incunabula Codex Marianus transliterated in 7-bit ASCII, at the Corpus Cyrillo-Methodianum Helsingiense Codex Marianus, at TITUS project Further reading (archive.org, Google Books US) B. M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 405-406. Evangelium secundum Ioannem, Novum Testamentum Palaeoslovenice 1 (St. Petersburg, 1998). M. Garzaniti, Die altslavische Version der Evangelien, (Köln: Böhlau, 2001). Ђ. Трифуновић, Ка почецима српске писмености, Београд 2001 1030s books Church Slavonic manuscripts Marianus Marianus, Codex Medieval Bulgarian literature of Macedonia 11th-century biblical manuscripts Marianus National Library of Russia collection Serbian manuscripts History of the Serbo-Croatian language Cyrillo-Methodian studies