Galician Gospel Book
The Galician Gospels (Russian Галицкое Евангелие ) is the oldest extant manuscript that can be precisely dated and contains the text of the four Gospels in Church Slavonic . It was created in 1144 in the Principality of Halitsch . The manuscript is now in the holdings of the Moscow State Historical Museum .
Handwriting
The manuscript is written on parchment and consists of 260 sheets of 23 × 16 cm. it consists of
- the text of the four Gospels (fol. 1–228), written from October 1st to November 9th 1144 in 40 (50) days (according to a note), and
- a Synaxarion and Menologion (fol. 223–260) from the late 13th or early 14th century.
The decorations in the text are very similar to other manuscripts from the Galician-Volhyn region of this period. The menologion corresponds literally to the text of the manuscript of the Bulgarian Gospel of Tarnowo from 1273 and contains the memorial days of the Russian saints and the feast days.
history
In 1576 the manuscript must have been in the Assumption Cathedral in Halitsch, in 1679 in Moldova . She had been in Moscow since 1699 at the latest, and in 1920 she came to the State Historical Museum.
literature
- Турилов А. А .: Галицкое Евангелие , in: Православная энциклопедия ( Orthodox Encyclopedia ), Vol. 10, Moscow 2005, pp. 340f., ISBN 5-89572-016-1 online
Remarks
- ↑ The signature of the then Bishop Gideon Balaban has been preserved for this year.