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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, 2021June 1, 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, 2021March 1, 2021 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

National Library of Belarus, October 2020. Photo: O. Shutova

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About intellectual landscape of Francysk Skaryna’s «Bible Rus’»: Belarus, the history of ideas and the Round Table «Francysk Skaryna’s studies in France

November 22, 2020February 26, 2021 Olga Shutova Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, self-representation

The National Library of Belarus has become, despite all the skeptics, one of the main tourist attractions of Minsk. The

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Sergey Temchin. Calvary cross over the Old Testament tabernacle in the engraving portrait of Francysk Skaryna

September 23, 2020 Sergey Temchin "Trapezium sign" on Francysk Skaryna's portrait, Calvary cross, Christian symbolism, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, self-representation

Published: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės kalbos, kultūros ir raštijos tradicijos. Temčinas S. et al. (red.). Vilnius, 2009 (Bibliotheca Archivi Lithuanici, vol.

Commemorative plaque of Francysk Skaryna in the National Library of the Czech Republic. (Author: Ales Dranets, 1996). The Clementinum, Prague. 18/08/2020. Photo by I. Lemeshkin

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The Laboratory of Francysk Skaryna Studies: Solidarity With the Belarusian People. Commemorative plaque of Francysk Skaryna. The Clementinum, Prague

August 21, 2020June 1, 2021 Olga Shutova Collective memory, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Prague

Flowers as a sign of the solidarity with the Belarusian people striving to stop the state violence and to have

The Francysk Skaryna monument in Prague,10/08/2020

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The Laboratory of Francysk Skaryna Studies: The Solidarity With the Belarusian People. The Francysk Skaryna Monument in Prague

August 11, 2020November 22, 2020 Olga Shutova Belarus, Collective memory, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Prague

After the impudent rigging of the presidential elections in Belarus on August 9, 2020, the civil disobedience campaign began over

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

Pinsk view from the south. Widok na Pińska ze strony południowéj // Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 1863. № 197. С. 260

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The 5th International Scientific Conference “Berkov’s Readings: Book Culture in the Context of International Contacts”

September 7, 2019September 7, 2019 Olga Shutova Book collections, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Symposium

29-30 May 2019 in Pinsk (Belarus), took place the 5th International Scientific Conference “Berkov’s Readings: book culture in the context

1517b version: the fly with 5 legs. Библиотека Академии Наук, НИОРК, 994 СП

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Ilya Lemeshkin. The (un)expected guest on F. Skórin’s portraits

September 5, 2019September 19, 2019 Ilya Lemeshkin Bibliographic description, Early printed books, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, musca depicta, self-representation, textual analysis, trompe-lʼœil

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

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.

Францыск Скарына: новыя даследаванні. Уклад., рэд. Аляксандр Груша. Мінск: Беларуская навука, 2019. 215 с. [Francysk Skaryna: New Studies. Edited by Alexander Grusha. Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2019. 215 pp.] ISBN 978-985-08-2415-8

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Book «Francysk Skaryna: New Studies»

May 1, 2019November 11, 2019 Olga Shutova Belarusian language, Belarusian press, Book printing, Christian symbolism, Collective memory, Cyrillic writing, Early printed books, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Printing house, Ruthenian Bible, Ruthenian language, Vernacular

The second volume of the collection of articles on Francysk Skaryna has just been published by the publisher “Belaruskaia navuka”

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

Иван IV отправляет Осипа Непею в Англию. Миниатюра Никоновской летописи. XVI век. [Public domain / via Wikimedia Commons]

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Olga Shutova. «Clues» paradigm in historiography: new perspectives in Francysk Skaryna Biography Studies

January 18, 2018September 3, 2019 Olga Shutova André Thevet, Bartolomeo Sanvito, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Giles Fletcher, Printing house, Typography

Published in Францыск Скарына: асоба, дзейнасць, спадчына / Цэнтр. навук. б-ка імя Якуба Коласа Нац. акад. навук Беларусі ; уклад. Аляксандр