Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Lithograph - Original French antique print
- Publisher: Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, Rue Jacob 56, 1885-1887.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 11 x 15.5 inches (28 x 40 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background
on which the print was photographed. 2. Detail of the print is sharper than the photo of the print.
Legend to the illustrations:
- The
old Slavic Manuscripts handed down to us, which reach back as far as
the X. century, are rather aaumerous, thanks to the almost complete
state of preservation of the libraries and treasuries of the many
old cloisters in Russia. Besides there is an important collection of
manuscripts at the Imperial Public library of St. Petersburgh and
at the library of the Synodal printing works of Moscow. The
illustrations represent a considerable number of characteristic
examples from the XVI. centurie, during which the
style of Russian manuscript-painting was most
flourishing. This period is marked by the assertion on the
one side of braided work displayed on a geometrical base
and the other side of more
unconstrained motives combined with animal forms
which remind us of Celtic ornaments. The few
pigments used of these occasions are as arule confined to blue, red,
yellow jand green. This simplicity of colour, together with a
symmetrical order of forms, confers a most agreeable calm on the
manuscript-paintings in question; the motives of that time are still
employed for coloured letter-press, Enamels and similar technics. Figs.
9 and 11. were taken from the "Synodicon of Princes and Bojars", 16th
Century, Imperial Library in St. Petersburg, 2,12,14. from an
Evangelist hymnal, the Pogodine collection, same library, the remaining
figures were taken from an Evangelist hymnal from 1530, same library.
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