The Manuscript of the Royal Gospel
1401
1401
Korolevo town, Vynohradivskiy district
Brief description
The Manuscript of the Royal Gospel. 1401 Contains 176 sheets, decorated with miniatures, ornaments and initials. It is bound and has a hardcover. The boards are covered with leather.
The book was commissioned by the Romanian voivode Drago or his family members. The Royal Gospel, rewritten in 1401 by Stanislav Gramatik in Nialab Castle on the territory of the modern village of Koroleve (Vinogradovsky district of Transcarpathian region), has been kept in the Transcarpathian Regional Museum since 1961. The manuscript was submitted for permanent keeping to the museum by the Archimandrite of Mukachevo Monastery Vasily (Pronin) on July 25, 1961. The first modern name of the book was officially used by the famous Transcarpathian literary critic V. Mykytas’ in 1964. The manuscript is a valuable source of history, a cultural heritage of book handwriting and Ukrainian writing.
