Zakon Sudnyi Liudem

Законъ соудьныи людьмъ or Судебник царя Константина

Bulgarians make a request to Byzantine Emperor Michael to baptize them; christening of Bulgarians. Miniature from Radzivill Chronicle. The text from Radzivill Chronicle: "Bulgarians saw that they cannot resist, and asked to baptize them and fell to the Greeks. The Tsar christened their prince and all the boyars..."
Created the end of the 9th century
Author(s) Byzantines and Slavs
Purpose guide book for the management of the church and for the church court; transmission of several old texts
Page of the oldest surviving Trinity (Troitsky) copy of Merilo Pravednoye, 14th century

Zakón Súdnyi Liúdem (Russian: Зако́н су́дный лю́дем, Old Church Slavonic: Законъ соудьныи людьмъ) or Legal Code of Tsar Constantine (Sudébnik tsariá Konstantína, Russian: Суде́бник царя́ Константи́на) is the oldest Slavic legal text. Its source was Byzantine law. It was written in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian.

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