Charter of Hilandar

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|document_name=Charter of Hilandar
{{lang|sr|Хиландарска повеља}}

|image=Charter of Hilandar, revision.jpg

|image_caption=Hilandar monastery

|location_of_document=Hilandar
Serbia

|date_created=1198–99

|date_ratified=

|writer=

|signers=Stefan Nemanja
Stefan Nemanjić

|purpose=charter

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Charter of Hilandar ({{langx|sr|Хиландарска повеља}}) is the founding charter of the Hilandar monastery, the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Church and main endowment of Stefan Nemanja and Saint Sava. It was written in 1198, while the second revision, of Stefan the First-Crowned in 1200–01.

Until 1896, the oldest Serbian charter in the Hilandar archives was the founding charter of Hilandar, while the oldest manuscript book in the Hilandar library was Miroslav's Gospel.{{cite book|title=Arhivist|volume=1-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGI9AQAAIAAJ|year=1951|page=48|quote=До 1896 год. најстарија српска повеља у хиландарском архиву била је оснивачка повеља Симеона Немање из 1198 — 1199 год., а најстарија српска рукописна књига у хиландарској библиотеци била је Мирослављево јеванђеље ...}}

Both charters are written in Serbian recension of Church Slavonic (literary) language, but the vernacular is present in the parts where the gifts to Hilandar are discussed. The original version of Stefan II's revision is located in the Hilandar.{{cite web | url=https://muzejsrpskogjezika.fil.bg.ac.rs/hilandarska-osnivacka-povelja/ | title=Хиландарска оснивачка повеља Стефана Немање – Виртуелни музеј српског језика }}