Monk Simeon is the Serbian author of Vukan's Gospel. This service Gospel -- '' aprakos''—is the earliest manuscript illuminated in Raška between the end of the 12th-century (1196) and the beginning of the 13th-century (1202). It is believed that several scribes worked on the creation of the manuscript, however, a monk named Simon was identified as the leading scribe who proofread, edited and completed the work in a monastic cave near the residence of the

župan Župan is a noble and administrative title used in several states in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe between the 7th century and the 21st century. It was (and in Croatia still is) the leader of the administrat ...

Stari Ras Ras ( sr-Cyrl, Рас; ), known in modern Serbian historiography as Stari Ras ( sr-Cyrl, Стари Рас, "Old Ras"), is a medieval fortress and area located in the vicinity of former market-place of ''Staro Trgovište'', some west of modern ...

. Two miniatures in the Vukan Gospel exist, John the Evangelist and Christ Emmanuel, showing

Byzantine art Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of Rome, decline of western Rome and ...

influence.

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