PRESIDENT
ZELENSKY
WILL TAKE OATH OF OFFICE ON PERESOPNITSA GOSPEL
The
Verkhovna Rada
sent a request to provide the Peresopnitsa Gospel for conducting
the
inauguration of the newly elected Ukrainian president, Vladimir
Zelensky, on 20
May. This was reported at the Institute of Manuscripts of the
V.I. Vernadsky
National Library of Ukraine, UNN reports.
"Yesterday
an official
appeal arrived from the Verkhovna Rada requesting to provide the
Peresopnitsa
Gospel for conducting the inauguration on 20 May," the Institute
of
Manuscripts said.
The
Peresopnitsa
Gospel is a manuscript monument of the art of the 16th century,
written in the
Old Ukrainian language, and is one of the first of such
translations of the
Gospel.
It was
created in
1556-1561 by the son of Archpriest Mikhail Vasilievich and the
archimandrite of
the Prechistenka monastery Grigory, who began work in the
village of Dvortse (now
in Khmelnitsy oblast) and completed it in Peresopnitsa (now in
Rovno oblast). Princess
Anastasia Zaslavskaia (house of Golshansky) ordered the book.
The
book consists of
482 pages and it weighs 9.3 kilograms.
At the
present time,
it is located in the Institute of Manuscripts of the V.I.
Vernadsky National
Library of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Peresopnitsa
Gospel is a
religious monument and national symbol, on which, in undertaking
to fulfill
their supreme obligations, presidents of Ukraine take the oath
to their people.
(tr. by PDS, posted 17 May 2019)
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