Considerații privind grafica Antologhionului de la Râmnic din 1737
Notes on the Graphics of Râmnic Anthologion, 1737

Summary/Abstract: The printing house of Râmnic, founded in 1705 by the scholar-metropolitan Anthim the Iberian, at that time serving as bishop, played an exceptional role in the development of Romanian culture throughout the eighteenth century and in the early decades of the next. The printing of numerous and varied books required for the celebration of religious services - some of them translated for the first time into Romanian through the efforts of Bishops Damaschin, Chesarie, and Filaret - led to their wide circulation throughout the Romanian lands. The books printed at Râmnic between 1705 and 1827 are of exceptional value, not only from a theological and literary perspective, but also in terms of their graphic design. The most extensively illustrated book printed at Râmnic is the Anthologion of 1737, a large folio volume of over 600 leaves that contains 34 woodcuts, 23 of which are signed by Mihai Râmniceanu – the most skilled engraver of the city, active between 1733 and 1750, the son of Athanasie Popovici. To this we have to add a title page, 2 frontispieces and 4 vignettes. While some of the woodcuts of the Anthologion are inspired from similar images printed in the Ukrainian area, Kiev (Psalter of 1697, Akathist, 1706), or Lvov (Heirmologion, 1700) some others in their turn influenced the illustrations of the Menologion printed at Blaj in 1781.

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