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The Borđoš Copy of Dušan’s Code

Stanišić1700 — 1900

A copy of the medieval law code was preserved for generations by a priestly family connected with Stanišić.

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The Borđoš copy of Dušan’s Code did not survive only in a state library or monastery. Its route passes through a priestly family and Stanišić, where the manuscript was kept before entering wider scholarship. The striking part is the fragility of transmission: a major legal text survived because a small number of people treated it as a family possession.

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