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Codex Cumanicus

c. 1300 · 14th century

The Codex Cumanicus is a manuscript compiled in the late 13th and early 14th centuries for Italian merchants and Franciscan missionaries working in the lands of the Golden Horde. It contains a Latin–Persian–Cuman glossary, Cuman riddles and Christian texts in Cuman, and is the main record of this Kipchak Turkic language. It is kept in the Marciana Library in Venice.

Codex Cumanicus
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Codex Cumanicus. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/codex-cumanicus
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