The Pentecostarion Miniat Manuscript of the Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca

The Pentecostarion Miniat Manuscript of the Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca

6 August 2018

This study continues the series of descriptions of XVIIth century slavo-romanian manuscripts belonging to Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca of Moldavia already published. The presentation of this particular manuscript – to be found nowadays in the State Library Museum of History in Moscow – helps us to understand better the richness scholarly activity of this bishop, and the activity of the Moldavian Scriptorium in those times. Created for the monastery of Dragomirna near Suceava, this unique book, which contains several miniatures, is described and analysed in all his details.