Evangelistary of Reims
The Reims Evangelistary is an illustrated manuscript in Church Slavonic from the 11th and 14th centuries.
description
It consists of 47 sheets of parchment . 16 sheets are written in Cyrillic script . These probably originated in the Kievan Rus in the second half of the 11th century . They have some linguistic peculiarities (ę instead of a, ž instead of žd: rožьestvo instead of roždьstvo ). 31 sheets are written in Glagolitic script and were created in Prague in 1395 , probably in the Emmaus monastery . These are decorated and provided with some colored miniatures of scenes from the Gospels .
The Cyrillic text contains the text sections from the Gospels of the New Testament for the liturgical reading from October 27 to March 1 according to the Greek Orthodox rite. The Glagolitic sheets contain the pericopes for the period from Palm Sunday to the Annunciation (March 25th) according to the Roman Catholic rite.
history
The Cyrillic part is said to have been written by St. Procopius in Bohemia in the 11th century, according to a note at the end of the manuscript. The Cyrillic script was never used there. According to linguistic knowledge, it originated in the Kievan Rus (or the Bulgarian Empire).
In 1395 the Glagolitic part was made on the initiative of Emperor Charles IV , probably with the help of Dalmatian monks. During the Hussite Wars , the manuscript came to Constantinople after 1451 . Cardinal Karl von Lorraine brought them to France and handed them over to the Reims Cathedral Treasury in 1554 . The last two French kings are said to have sworn the coronation oath on this evangelist in the 18th century (?). Today the manuscript is in the Bibliothèque Municipale in Reims.
Web links
- Facsimile Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims