In the Belarusian Museum named after Ivan Luckievič

In the Belarusian Museum named after Ivan Luckievič, the most interesting handwritten books of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries are being photographed, together with early printed books, for use in the jubilee (Skaryna) edition of a collective work on the history of the Belarusian book.

Among the early printed books is the "Trjodź cviatnaja" (Flowery Triodion), printed in Cracow in Church Slavonic with Belarusian notes in 1491 (at the printing house of Schweipolt Fiol), and a "Časaslou" (Book of Hours), which was printed in the first Moscow printing house, founded in 1564 by pupils of the Belarusian printer Skaryna, Piotr Mścisłaviec and Ivan Fiodaraŭ, and destroyed by the benighted Muscovite rabble. This last print is extremely rare.

The ancient handwritten books written in Belarus are distinguished by the character of their script, their ornamentation and their drawings of the Evangelists.