Un Tetraevanghel de la Biblioteca Sfântului Sinod
The Four-Gospels Book from the Library of the Saint Synod

Summary/Abstract: In the patrimony of the Library of the Saint Synod there is also a Four-Gospels Book, wich was aquired in 1958. It is a Slavonic manuscris, written on a parchement, in Moldavia, in the XVIth century, having the dimensions of 21,5 X. 29 cm and 260 unnumbered pages. The bound manuscris, made of wooden covers and dressed in green velvet, is more recent. The text is written in black ink and the suggestions of how the gospels should be read are written in gold on the borders of the pages. In the writing of the initial letters and of the commas, there are four colours used namely: black, red, blue and gold. The last page contains the facts from which we find that: „during the days of Petru Rares, the voivode of Moldavia, in the year of 1535, the treasurer Mateias and his brother, Sima, paid for the copy of the four gospels to be donated to the St.Monastery of Dobrovat.” We know few things about the doners: Mateiaş was the voivode Petru Rareş’s trustful man, appreciated for his diplomatic skills. He founded two holly churches: the monastery Coşula (1535) and the church from the village of Horodniceni (1539). We do not know other details about his brother, Sima. The Four-Gospels Book is one of the most beautiful and rare book from the Library of the Saint Synod.

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