Abstract
<jats:p>This paper examines the Koporinja (Serbian) Chronicle of 1453, copied by the deacon Damjan for Josif, the Metropolitan of Zeta. The chronicle is preserved in the same codex as the Syntagma of Matheos Blastares, currently kept in the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade (MSPC 45), and was formerly in the Monastery of Krušedol. Within the context of the complex political circumstances in Zeta in the mid-15th century – situated between the Serbian Despotate, of which it formed a part, the Republic of Venice, and the expanding Ottoman power, and marked by the rise of the family of Stefanica Crnojević, who came to dominate its mountainous regions – the paper analyses the structure and thematic layers of the text and determines its place within the typology of Serbian chronicles rooted in the Byzantine chronographic tradition. It is shown that the Koporinja Chronicle represents an important source for the study of ideological and literary processes in Zeta in the second half of the 15th century, and its text is published here.</jats:p>