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- Title
MANUSCRIPTS FROM MITROPLINTAN SCRIPTORIUM IN RUSSIAN AND LITHUANIAN LIBRARIES (ON THE ISSUE OF A UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT OF TSARIST HERBARIUM IN VILNIUS).
- Authors
ISAČENKO, TATJANA
- Abstract
Enlightenment and publishing were inseparably linked in the conciousness of literary men of the Renaissance period. The printing pioneer of Vilnius, Francisk Skorina, more than once proclaimed that the aim of his life was 'to educate simple people, so that they, upon achieved wisdom, can live well in the world.' To live well for a person of that period meant learning to overcome one's illnesses. Illness was seen as a sin, and a sin as illness. Thus, it is clear that books on healing are a special type of literature. It is also notable that of the 3,000 printed books of the 15th century, one third were dedicated to medicine, botany, and zoology. This article is devoted to a description of the Vilnius' leechbook which appeared at the end of the 17th century in the Patriarch's scriptoria (Moscow). The history of this text is inseparably linked to that of the herbal of 1534, which was compiled for the dying prince Vasilij III, father of Ivan the Terrible.
- Subjects
VILNIUS (Lithuania); LITHUANIA; MANUSCRIPTS; LIBRARIES; DISEASES; MEDICINE; BOTANY; ZOOLOGY
- Publication
Knygotyra, 2010, Issue 54, p186
- ISSN
0204-2061
- Publication type
Article