Item Info

Language: Church Slavonic
Folio Number: ff. 4v-5r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

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This item appeared in the exhibition "Sacred Stories: The World's Religious Traditions" in the Rare Book Department, August 2015-January 2016.

This is the label from that exhibition:

This small book contains the Christian New Testament in Church Slavonic. Although this is a manuscript with hand-drawn illustrations, the artist attempted to mimic the look of woodcuts found in printed books.

Notes: St. Matthew writing his Gospel
Notes: This small manuscript contains the New Testament translated into Slavonic. It contains five full-page miniatures: a scene of the Crucifixion at the beginning and portraits of the four Evangelists before each of the Gospel texts. Although this is a manuscript with hand-drawn illustrations, the artist attempted to mimic the look of woodcuts found in printed books, which had just started to be produced in the second half of the fifteenth-century.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1583862
Country: Country:Bohemia
Region/County:Silesia

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1599
Image Dimensions Width: 100 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 41