Vorone Gospels
The Vorone Gospel Book is an illustrated manuscript from 1614/17 from what is now Romania . It contains the text of the four Gospels of the New Testament in Church Slavonic . The manuscript consists of 356 parchment sheets in the format 36 × 25 cm. There are some full-page color miniatures included.
The manuscript was made in 1614 by the monk Theophilos in the Voroneț monastery in what was then the Principality of Moldova on behalf of Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca . In 1617 miniatures were painted by the monk Stefan von Suceava . The manuscript came to the Krechow monastery in Galicia. In the 19th century it came to the university library in Lviv . It has been in the National Library in Warsaw since 1946 .
literature
- Andrzej Kłossowski: Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie: zbiory i działalność. Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa 1990. ISBN 83-70090-44-3