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Item description: HOLY BIBLE FROM OSTROG - church old slavonic book, comprising seventy-six books of the Old and New Testaments, modern reprint of ancient edition of Ostrog Holy Byble of 1581. Pages 1256, with many illustrations and rich decorative viniettes. Huge format.
Originated: from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the goverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).
All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due to strong religious restrictions.
Item story: I have received this book at annual fair in Moscow where christians belonged to Old Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.
Measurements:
330 x 210 x 75 mm, Huge format.Weigth: 3,5 kg
Condition:
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Item description
in Russian: Остро́жская Би́блия — один из
первых славянских переводов Библии и первое завершенное издание Библии на
церковнославянском языке, опубликованное в Остроге русским первопечатником
Иваном Фёдоровым в 1581 году с помощью православного князя Константина
Острожского, по благословению дубенского игумена Иова.
«Острожская Библия» состоит из 76 книг Ветхого и Нового завета. Некоторые её
части основывались на переводах Франциска Скорины. Среди источников указывают
также «Геннадиевскую Библию» — рукопись конца XV века.
Как и все издания Ивана Федорова, «Острожская Библия» набрана и сверстана
безупречно. В ней для основного текста применен мелкий, но удобочитаемый «острожский»
шрифт, полууставный с элементами скорописных начертаний, и набор в две колонки.
Объем текста оценивают в 3 240 000 печатных знаков.
Лицевое (иллюстрированное) наборное переиздание 7422 (1914) года, выполненное «тщанием
и иждивением Московской Старообрядческой Книгопечатни». Заявлено как сделанное «во
всем согласно» с оригиналом, но на самом деле напечатанное с существенным
поновлением орфографии (проставлены ударения, исправлены некоторые опечатки).
Настоящая книга есть репринт староверческой книги 1914 года, которая в свою очередь перепечатана слово в слово, буква в букву с дораскольного издания напечатанного при православном патриархе в 1581 году. Не содержит исправлений, внесенных в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Крепкий книжный блок, сшитый толстыми нитками, твердая обложка, покрытая дермантином. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава, обучения детей и взрослых Слову Божию, для домашней и соборной молитвы, для семейного чтения и спасения души.
An Explanation of
the HOLY BIBLE FROM OSTROG history:
The Ostrog Bible (Ukrainian: Острозька Біблія; Russian: Острожская Библия) was
one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the Bible[citation needed] and
the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic,
published in Ostroh, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, by the Muscovy
printer Ivan Fyodorov in 1581 with the assistance of the Ukrainian Prince
Konstantin Ostrogski.
The Ostrog Bible is unique among Church Slavonic Bibles in that the Old
Testament was translated not from the (Hebrew) Masoretic text, but from the
(Greek) Septuagint.[citation needed] This translation, comprising seventy-six
books of the Old and New Testaments, was based on the Gennadius Bible and a
manuscript of the Codex Alexandrinus. Some parts were based on Francysk
Skaryna's translations.
The Ostrog Bibles were printed on two dates: 12 July 1580, and 12 August 1581.
The second version differs from the 1580 original in composition, ornamentation,
and correction of misprints. In the printing of the Bible delays occurred, as it
was necessary to remove mistakes, to search for correct textual resolutions of
questions, and to produce a correct translation. The editing of the Bible
detained printing. In the meantime, Fyodorov and his company printed other
biblical books. The first were those which did not require correcting: the
Psalter and the New Testament.
The Ostrog Bible on Commons
The Ostrog Bible is a monumental publication of 1,256 pages, lavishly decorated
with headpieces and initials, which were prepared especially for it. From the
typographical point of view, the Ostrog Bible is irreproachable. This is the
first Bible printed in Cyrillic type. It served as the original and model for
further Russian publications of the Bible.
The importance of the first printed Cyrillic Bible can hardly be overestimated.
Prince Ostrogski sent copies to Pope Gregory XIII and tsar Ivan the Terrible,
while the latter presented a copy to an English ambassador. When leaving Ostroh,
Fyodorov took 400 books with him. Only 300 copies of the Ostrog Bible are extant
today.
The Ostrog Bible was widely known in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and also
abroad. It is registered in the library of Oxford; its copies were owned by King
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the cardinal Barberini, many scientists and the
public figures of that time. The Ostrog Bible was reprinted in Moscow in 1663.
The significance of the Ostrog Bible was enormous for Orthodox education, which
had to resist strong Catholic pressure in Ukraine and Belarus.
About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in many Russian regions, including North and Siberia. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.
Group of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1900
Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: "Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man's salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man's mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit." Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.
Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers with huge prayer book.
Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 2007
Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our eBay auction: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religious items in our auction are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.
About me: as the representative of this Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in auctions, antiques shops, church shops, flea markets, at private persons by purchase and by exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.
Charity: 10% of my eBay income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.
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