Editing Dušan Code (section)

==Manuscripts==
{{expand section|date=February 2012}}[[File:Dusan-zak.jpg|thumb|{{center|Hilandar manuscript}}]] The Popović family from [[Dvorane, Suva Reka|Dvorane]], which generated 18 or 21 generations of village priests, were important in the preservation of [[medieval Serbian literature]]: they had the Charter of [[Our Lady of Ljeviš]], written by [[Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|Serbian King]] [[Stefan Dečanski]] (r. 1321–1331), in their direct property; the Russian consul in Prizren, [[Jastrebov]], found it at the house of the last descendant of the family, Jovan Dvoranac Popović in Prizren, who gave it to the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].<ref name=Radovanovic268/> It is believed that one of the forefathers of the family was the ''elder'' of the [[Saint Archangels Monastery]] (Dušan's endowment) near Prizren, and that he during the [[History of Ottoman Serbia|Ottoman times]] managed to transfer the valuable texts to the church in his village of Dvorane. In 1779, priest Partenije Popović became a monk of the [[Saint Mark Koriški Monastery]], to where he brought several important books.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Slovo srpsko|title=Slovo|volume=18|url=http://slovosrpsko.net/stari-brojevi/slovo18.pdf|page=45|access-date=2012-02-24|archive-date=2014-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221225517/http://slovosrpsko.net/stari-brojevi/slovo18.pdf}}</ref> In 1859, Prizren teacher [[Nikola Musulin]] found the Dušan's Code there, and in 1860 the Saint Archangels Charter was found in the [[Church of St. Nicholas, Koriša|St. Nicholas Church]] in the village of [[Koriša]].<ref name=Radovanovic268>{{harvnb|Radovanović|2008|p=268}}</ref>

Today 24 manuscripts of Dusan Code are known. The oldest extant is the [[Struga]] manuscript from 1373; which is not preserved in full; only 100 articles remain. The [[Mount Athos|Athos]] and Studenica manuscripts date from around 1418. The [[Hilandar]], Bistrica and Prizren manuscripts, which have the most complete texts, date to the 15th century. The [[Rakovac monastery|Rakovac]] manuscript, dating to around 1700, comprises only the last 12 articles and the Emperor's comments.