school
Ohrid Literary School (Clement and Naum)
886–1100
attested. Attested by the Life of Clement and the Glagolitic manuscripts; pupil numbers are hagiographic; manuscripts are assigned to the Ohrid tradition by scholars.
Boris I sent Clement to south-western Macedonia in 886, where he taught and preached in Slavonic and founded the Panteleimon monastery at Ohrid. Naum later founded the monastery of St Naum. The school kept the Glagolitic script longer than Preslav.
Place: Ohrid · On the map
People
- Clement of Ohrid (said to have taught 3,500 pupils)
- Naum (founded his monastery on Lake Ohrid, 905)
Manuscripts made here
Codex Assemanius (Glagolitic Gospel lectionary, 10th-11th c.)
Kept now: Vatican Library, Vat. slav. 3
Codex Marianus (Glagolitic Gospels, c. 1000; found on Athos)
Kept now: Moscow, Russian State Library