Moscow Apostolar

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The Moscow Apostolar is a book printing that appeared in Moscow in 1564 . It is the first precisely datable printed book in the Russian Empire . It consists of 534 pages (267 sheets) in the format 28 × 18 cm with 25 lines each. The apostolar contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles and the letters of the New Testament , plus a menologion and an afterword by the printer Ivan Fyodorov . On the first page the evangelist Luke is shown in an engraving. There are ornamental decorations and initials .

Today there are around 65 copies worldwide (46 in Russia).

Web links

Facsimile (Russian State Library, Moscow)
Facsimile (Russian Academy of Sciences)

literature

Russia . In: Bernhard Fabian (Hrsg.): Handbook of German historical book stocks in Europe; an overview of collections in selected libraries . tape 8 . Olms-Weidmann, 2001, ISBN 3-487-10364-8 , pp. 24 ( online in Google Book Search).