List of medieval Serbian manuscripts

The List of Medieval Serbian manuscripts (Serbian: Средњовековни српски рукописи, Srednjovekovni srpski rukopisi) belonging to a corpus of Medieval Serbian literature, including Serbian Church, Bogomilism, Serbian Catholic codices, written in vernacular Serbian (Folk language, Slavic), Old Church Slavonic, using Serbian Cyrillic, and/or Glagolitic scripts. Containing important works attributed to Serbia or Serbs. The majority of works are theological, with a few biographies and constitutions.

The number of early Serbian manuscripts, that is, those made before the end of the 14th century, is estimated at 800–1,000. The number of Serbian manuscripts dating between the 12th and 17th centuries that are located outside Serbia is estimated at 4,000–5,000. The largest number of the manuscripts are located in Europe. The largest and most important collection is housed at the Hilandar on Mount Athos. Next, the second largest collection is most likely found in Russia, where hundreds of manuscripts are held. More than a thousand of medieval manuscripts were destroyed during the Nazi-German bombing of Belgrade (1941) ordered by Adolf Hitler himself as full-scale Genocide of Serbs project.

The Digital National Library of Serbia (NBS) has digitalized several manuscripts, included at their website.

The Digital National Library of Saint Petersburg, Russia (NLR) has digitalized several manuscripts, included at their website

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