A 1697 Slavonic altar Gospels printed at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev during the reign of Peter the Great. The binding is polished brass, the upper board showing Christ surrounded by the Evangelists, Mary and John, the lower board with an elaborate Tree of Jesse image. 1/
Evangelie ili Blagovestvovanie Gospoda Boga i Spasa Nashego Iisusa Khrista. [The Gospels or the Good Tidings of Our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.] Kiev: Press of the Pecherskaia Lavra, December 1697. 2/
The press at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves was established in 1615 by Archimandrite Yelysei Pletenetsky, who purchased the presses and type from the Striatyn press of Galicia, one of the earliest presses established in the Ukraine. 3/
The Monastery of the Caves press was the first to be established in Kiev; it became a vital center of Ukrainian printing and engraving during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 4/
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