The Ruthenian Bible of Francysk Skaryna turns 500

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  • Before Skaryna
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    • Ruthenian Bible
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The Ruthenian Bible

  • A printing house in the times of Skaryna. A 1519 wood engraving depicting Oldřich Velenský‘s workshop. NK
  • The title page of the Ruthenian Bible, printed in 1519 in Genesis. OLB
  • Czechia and neighbouring lands in the 16th century. 1564. LMAVB
  • Skaryna‘s Ruthenian Bible, a bound set from the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Görlitz. OLB
  • The title pages of the Venetian Bible of 1506. KNM
  • A wood engraving from the Venetian Bible of 1506 depicting a scene from the Apocalypse. SK
  • The title page of the Severyn Bible of 1529. SK
  • The creation of the world, a wood engraving from Genesis. 1519. OLB
  • A portrait of Skaryna, a wood engraving from the Book of Kings. 1518. OLB
  • Christ Pantocrator, a wood engraving from the Book of Wisdom. 1518. OLB
  • Moses in front of the chosen people, a wood engraving from Deuteronomy. 1519–1520. OLB
  • Solomon talking with the Queen of Sheba, a wood engraving from the Book of Kings. 1518. OLB
  • The Anointing of David, a wood engraving from the Book of Kings. 1518. OLB
  • The construction of a church in Jerusalem, a wood engraving from the Book of Kings. 1518. OLB
  • The siege of Jerusalem, a wood engraving from the Book of Kings. 1518. OLB
  • The Prague Benedictine monastery Na Slovanech, a fragment from “The siege of Jerusalem”, a wood engraving from the Books of Kings. 1518. OLB

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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© The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, 2017