page_title: Bosnian Church
section_title: Hval's Codex
hierarchical_section_title: Bosnian Church / Organization and characteristics / Hval's Codex
caption_attribution_description: English: Hvalov zbornik, illustrated slavic manuscript from medieval Bosnia. Polski: Kodeks Hvala, ilustrowany średniowieczny manuskrypt słowiański z Bośnii.
context_page_description: The Bosnian Church was a Christian church in medieval Bosnia that was independent of and considered heretical by both the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox hierarchies.
  Historians have traditionally connected the church with the Bogomils, although this has been challenged and is now rejected by most scholars. Adherents of the church called themselves simply krstjani or dobri Bošnjani. The church's organization and beliefs are poorly understood, because few if any records were left by church members and the church is mostly known from the writings of outside sources - primarily Roman Catholic ones.
  The monumental tombstones called Stećak that appeared in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, are sometime identified with the Bosnian Church.
context_section_description: Hval's Codex, written in 1404 in Bosnian Cyrillic, is one of the most famous manuscripts belonging to the Bosnian Church in which there are some iconographic elements which are not in concordance with the supposed theological doctrine of Christians (Annunciation, Crucifixion and Ascension). All the important Bosnian Church books (Nikoljsko evandjelje, Sreckovicevo evandelje, the Manuscript of Hval, the Manuscript of Krstyanin Radosav) are based on Glagolitic Church books.
caption: A miniature from Hval's Codex
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