Hankenstein Codex

Hankenstein Codex. An 11th–12th century Church Slavonic manuscript written in western Ukraine and preserved at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Also called the Octoechos of Vienna, it is a 289-folio liturgical anthologium. Its language, which has many local features, has been studied by Stepan Smal-Stotsky (1886), Kost Kysilevsky (1953), and George Yurii Shevelov (1979).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]