The Ruthenian Bible of Francysk Skaryna turns 500

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  • Preface
  • Before Skaryna
  • Skaryna
    • Biography
    • Ruthenian Bible
    • Skaryna and Lithuania
    • Royal Gardener
  • After Skaryna
  • Preserving the memory
    • Lithuania
    • Belarus
    • Czechia
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Before Skaryna

  • The charter granted by Mindaugas to Livonian merchants. 1253. LVVA
  • Prayers in Lithuanian. Post-1503. VUB
  • The chapter on the start of the Trojan war from Chronographia. The 1st quarter of the 16th cent. LMAVB
  • Archangel Michael, an illustration from the Lavrashev Gospels. The 14th cent. BCzart
  • The cover of the Lavrashev Gospels. The 14th cent.
  • The first page spread of the Gospels with a miniature of St. John and a headpiece, an illustration from the Lavrashev Gospels. The 14th cent. BCzart
  • The Jerome Bible (or the Vulgate). The 13th cent. LMAVB
  • TheSong of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) with commentaries. The 13th cent. LMAVB
  • The Mstizh Gospels. The 14th cent. LMAVB
  • Miniatures depicting: David playing a harp; David defending his father‘s flock from a lion. The illustrations are from the Explanatory Psalter. The early 16th cent. RNB
  • The gardener‘s cottage. Photo by Sylva Dobalova. 2012
  • The Chronicle of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, the Short Redaction. 1495, transcript. LMAVB
  • The Antiphonary, transcribed for the Vilnius Bernardine Monastery. [1469–1494]. LMAVB
  • The Gradual, transcribed for the Vilnius Bernardine Monastery. [1469–1494]. LMAVB
  • The title page of the book by Sacranus. 1501. LMAVB
  • The King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Alexander. 1594. LMAVB
  • The coat of arms of the GDL, the image from the Arsenal Armorial (a transcript of Stemmata Polonica by Jan Dlugosz). Circa 1555. BnF BA
  • The ruler of Lithuania, the image from the Arsenal Armorial (a transcript of Stemmata Polonica by Jan Dlugosz). Circa 1555. BnF BA
  • The beginning of the Psalter, an illustration from the Compendium of the Books of the Bible. 1503–1507. Scribe Matthew the Tenth. RMAB
  • The beginning of the Gospel of Luke, an illustration from the Zhirovitsy Gospels. The 16th cent. LMAVB
  • An example of handwriting of Matthew the Tenth, an illustration from the Compendium of the Books of the Bible. 1503–1507. RMAB
  • St. John, an illustration from the Lavrashev Gospels. The 14th cent. BCzart
  • King David, an illustration from the Kiev Psalter. 1397. RNB
  • St. Jerome, an illustration from the Jerome Bible (the Vulgate). The 13th cent. LMAVB

The exhibition is funded by

the Research Council of Lithuania Contract Nr. LIP-105/2016

Authors of the texts:

Rima Cicėnienė
Aleksandr Grusha
Ilya Lemeshkin
Sigitas Narbutas
Daiva Narbutienė
Sergey Temchin
Petr Voyt

Other

Translated into English by
Ana Venclovienė
Translated into Belarusian by
Nina Petkevich

Virtual exhibition mounted
by Ernestas Adomaitis,
Audronė Steponaitienė

Exhibition partners:

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