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Rhemish edition of the Gospel of Anna Yaroslavna has been represented at St. Sophia`s Cathedral
Edition of the famous Kiev attraction of the first half of 11th century in English, German and French languages has been represented at St. Sophia`s Cathedral of the National Reserve “Sophia Kievskaya”. This is the oldest domestic book, originating from Yaroslav Mudry`s Library, founded under Sophia`s Cathedral in 1037. The old Kiev Rhemish Gospel appeared in France with Yaroslav Mudry`s daughter Anna.
It is considered that Anna Yaroslavna gave her regal oath during her marriage ceremony when marrying King Henry 1. Till recent time the manuscript has been considered lost in the regional French collection, which was kept in the city library of Reims – the old coronation city of French kings.
“I have known about the prayer-book of Anna for a long time. But I remembered about it after reading a book about Anna Yaroslavna – initiator and inspirer of the edition, Chairman of Ukrainian Encyclopedia Fund Oleg Ivanusa says. I started looking for information about it and found it in France under the name “Rhemish Gospel”. I also found out that the Gospel was kept at the library of Reims”.
According to O. Ivanusa, he asked the famous French photographer with Russian origin Yuriy Bilak to go to that library and photograph all the 32 pages of the relic that is all left from the book that, according to experts, had to survive curtain cataclysm”.
“Yuriy Bilak passed the digital information to Ukraine and asked France permission for publishing it –Oleg Ivanusa says. He assured that the library of Reims did not hide Ukrainian relic – it was even brought to Moscow exhibition in 1975. Moscow researcher Lidia Zhukovskaya became the first specialist-philologist who got an opportunity to research the Reims sheets in original, but the declared scientific result turned out too modest.
For Ukrainian science Old Kiev Rhemish Gospel still exists thanks to short mentionings on pages of survey editions and popular literature. “Rhemish Gospel has never taken appropriate place among Ukrainian cultural heritage and, in fact, remains little-known – historian Vladimir Alexandrovich say. The Reims fragment is not just the oldest Kiev original manuscript, but should be admitted the oldest prayer-book of Ukrainian Church”.
Scientists assure that relic is the whole field for researching, since Reims sheets of Old Kiev Manuscript are unique source for history of Ukrainian language.
“Cyrillic sheets of Rhemish Gospel are the earliest monument of Kiev book publishing and, at the same time, one of the most ancient authentic examples of Ukrainian language. In this regard, it is left behind only by single old inscriptions, found on the walls of St. Sophia`s Cathedral” – Vladimir Alexandrovich says.
“A humble fragment of Old Kiev Manuscript is equal in importance to such generally acknowledged, the most outstanding achievements of Kiev Christianity setting period, such as St. Sophia`s Cathedral and the first original example of domestic literature – “The Treatise on the Law and Grace” by Metropolit Ilarion.
Despite its impetuous destiny, the relic returned to its Motherland as a full-fledged edition in three languages.
27 October 2010
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