Неколико нових прилога о Димитрију Даскалу из Јањева
A few new contributions to the study of Dimitrije Daskal from Janjevo

Summary/Abstract: Dimitrije Daskal from Janjevo has long been known as a good copyist of books, while his works as an illuminator only attracted attention in the mid-20th century. Thanks to the research of S. Radojčić and Z. Rakić in the first place, the following manuscripts of Dimitrije Daskal have been identified, published, and examined so far: Četvorojevanđelje (The Four Gospels) No. 78 from the Holy Trinity Monastery near Pljevlja, Pomenik (list of individuals for whom prayers are ofered) of the Dečani Monastery No. 109, The Four Gospels from the Ravna Reka Monastery (now in the manuscript collection of the Pakrac-Slavonic Eparchy in Pakrac), The Four Gospels No. 19 from the Dečani Monastery, The Four Gospels No. 6 from the library of the Hilandar Monastery, and The Four Gospels No. 263 from the Library of the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. The paper first presents an illuminated sheet from The Four Gospels No. 19 from the Dečani Monastery kept in the Library of the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade (Rs 246). The opus of Dimitrije Daskal’s calligraphic illuminations can be supplemented with The Four Gospels No. 9 from the collection of A. F. Hilferding in the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, originally from the Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Đurđevića Tara. The manuscript’s authorship is confirmed by an inscription afer the book was written. It was designed like all the other Four Gospels by Dimitrije Daskal – containing large initials and lavish banners, among which is the only uncoloured banner in the manuscripts of this illuminator. Three leaves of The Four Gospels of unknown origin belonging to the manuscript collection of P. I. Sevastyanov in the Russian State Library in Moscow (fund 270, II, No. 16) can certainly be attributed to him. They were placed at the beginning of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They were decorated with large banners, decorative titles and initials of interlaced style, and coloured with gold and tempera colours of intense chromatic tones. The Prologue for the Summer Time of the Year by Dimitrije Daskal is preserved in fragments now located in the Gračanica Monastery (No. 33), the University Library in Belgrade (No. 45), and the Bulgarian Archives and Libraries in Sofia (No. II. A. 7462). One of the inscriptions in this Prologue refers to Metropolitan Vasilije who ordered the book and donated it to his cathedral church in Gračanica in 1587, while another states that the scribe of the Prologue was Dimitrije Daskal. The inscriptions in this Prologue contain information that can contribute to the biography of Dimitrije Daskal. He was born around the mid-16th century and lived in the mining town of Janjevo, not far from the Gračanica Monastery. Before 1595, he became a daskal (teacher) in a Serbian school in his town. His work on copying and decorating books lasted from the 1580s to the first decade of the 17th century. He died in 1622. The death of Dimitrije’s son Andreja (Hadži Lav) was recorded in 1672 in an inscription in the Prologue. Andreja, like his father, was a teacher in Janjevo and a renowned copyist of books.

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