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Title page of the Instruction of Sigismund II Augustus to Wojciech Kryski from February 21, 1553 (Instruƈtio legati ad cuius præscriptum Gene- | rosus Albertus Kriski Orator Regius, ad | Julium iii Pontificem Maximim in re Mosco- | uitana Orationem habuit. AGAD, Libri legationum, 14, f. 234v)

Francysk Skaryna and Res Moscovitana: Polish, English and French sources on “printing incident” in Muscovy

January 10, 2022 Olga Shutova André Thevet, Book printing, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Giles Fletcher, Wojciech Kryski

Title page of the Instruction of Sigismund II Augustus to Wojciech Kryski from February 21, 1553 (Instruƈtio legati ad cuius

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Exhibition “Francisk Skorina. Renaissance intellectual between Prague and Vilnius (1470-1552)”. UNESCO World Heritage project in the Czech Republic dedicated to Belarus

June 1, 2021December 7, 2021 Olga Shutova 500 years of Skaryna’s Bible, Book printing, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Prague, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

UNESCO World Heritage Mission is dedicating its project in the Czech Republic to Belarus. As part of this project, eighteen

Фронтиспис И. Лемешкин «Портрет Франциска Скорины. К 550-летию со дня рождения книгоиздателя (1470–2020)»

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A remarkable event in Francysk Skaryna Studies: Ilya Lemeshkin’s monograph on the portrait of Francysk Skaryna

February 26, 2021January 10, 2022 Olga Shutova 500 years of Skaryna’s Bible, Belarusian press, Christian symbolism, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Prague, Prague Bible of 1488., self-representation, textual analysis, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

We are pleased to announce the publication of Ilya Lemeshkin’s book: Илья Лемешкин – Ilja Lemeškinas – Il’ja Lemeškin. Портрет

The Golgotha Cross, 16th c.

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Olga Shutova. «… So that my brothers Rus’ while reading, may understand better»: «in-deapth reading» and Francysk Skaryna’s symbolism

November 1, 2019August 11, 2020 Olga Shutova Christian Kabbalah, Early printed books, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Golgotha cross, Hebrew alphabet, Pico della Mirandola, self-representation, trapezium with cross, triangle A-T

Published: Францыск Скарына: новыя даследаванні / Цэнтр. навук. б-ка імя Якуба Коласа Нац. акад. навук Беларусі; уклад. Аляксандр Груша; рэдкал.:

The Book printer. [Panoplia] omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium... H. Schopper, J. Amman. Francofurti ad Moenum: S. Feyerabend, 1568. Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology

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Ales Zhlutka. The unknown pages of Francysk Skaryna’s biography

September 12, 2019August 21, 2020 Aliaksandr Zhlutka Belarusian press, Book printing, Datia Dacia Dania Denmark, Doctor Rus, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Jan from Pukhov, Prague, Skaryna-gardener, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Published in: Весці Нацыянальнай акадэміі навук Беларусі. Серыя гуманітарных навук. 2017. № 3. С. 40–50 The article examines the primary

Left: Francysk Skaryna's portrait. Kniga premudrosti Iisusa, syna Sirahova [Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach]. Prague: Francysk Skaryna, 1517. P. 82r. Right: Salomon, fragment. Calendarium. Venetia: Nicolo de Balager (Nicolaus dictus Castilia), 1488; Quot. here is 1511 edition, from Horologio della sapientia et meditationi sopra la passione delnostro signore Iesu Christo vulgare (Venetia: S. da Lovere, 1511)

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Olga Shutova. Francysk Skaryna’s Bible and Italie: sources, influences and inspirations

September 3, 2019September 7, 2019 Olga Shutova Biblia Italica 1471, Biblia vulgare istoriata 1490, colophons, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Paduan-Venetian Style, Vernacular

Published in: Berkovskie chteniya. Berkov Readings: Book culture in the context of international contacts. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference.

Padua. Frontispiece inside the front cover. Bernardini Scardeoni, canonici Patavini, De antiquitate vrbis Patavii, & claris ciuibus Patauinis, libri tres, in quindecim classes distincti. Eivsdem appendix De sepvlchris insignibvs exterorvm Patavii iacentivm. Basileae: Nicolaum Episcopium Iuniorem, 1560. Libri III.

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Olga Shutova. Again about Skaryna in Padua: New possibilities of reading the old documents. Time, context, circumstances and attendees

April 12, 2019June 24, 2019 Olga Shutova Bartolomeo Sanvito, Datia Dacia Dania Denmark, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies

Published in English and Belarusian in Belarusian Review – Winter 2014, vol. 26, No. 4. P. 17-23; Spring 2015, vol.

Титульный лист. Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus [О. Ш. : компиляция Иоганна Сакробоско] austrie filis de astrorum scientia decem continentis tractatus. Pavia, 1513. Source : Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Title page. Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus [О. Ш. : компиляция Иоганна Сакробоско] austrie filis de astrorum scientia decem continentis tractatus. Pavia, 1513. Source : Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Olga Shutova. Once again on Francysk Skaryna’s portrait, or the Importance of “reading” the engravings (author’s cut)

April 5, 2019April 14, 2020 Olga Shutova Bartolomeo Sanvito, Christian symbolism, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait

Published in Belarus: Крынiцазнаўства i спецыяльныя гостарычныя дысцыплнны. Рэд. О. Л. Лiпнiцкая, С. М. Ходзiн. Мiнск: Выд. Белдзяржунiверсiтэта, 2015. This

Luke the Evangelist, miniature from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, Queen consort of France (1477-1514), Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Why did Frantsisk Skorina decide to become the educator?

November 19, 2018December 7, 2021 Alexander Hruša Collective memory, Francysk Skaryna, Luke the Evangelist, Motivation, self-representation, the word of God

Published in Груша, А. И. Почему Франциск Скорина решил стать просветителем? // Современные проблемы книжной культуры: основные тенденции и перспективы развития: