TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10 1/2 in. overall
COMPONENTS: Altar Gospel illustrated with engraved portraits of the four evangelists, text printed in red and black; bound in an elaborate high-relief silver-plated binding over boards, the front board fitted with four large oval hand-painted porcelain portraits of the four Evangelists in the four corners with John the Baptist in the center, and six smaller saints surrounding the central panel; the back board designed as a repousse altar piece with four brass feet and an oblong miniature on porcelain of Mary, spine panel also silver-plated repousse, gilt and gauffered edges.
NOTES: A scholar at Oxford University indicates that the title page states that the book was made on the order of Tsar Alexander Pavlovich, that is Alexander I, who ruled between 1801 and 1825.
LANGUAGE
Church Slavonic.
ITEM ID: 4780
