Contemporary manuscript Andrei Rublev

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A masterpiece of medieval Russian auction " In the Nikita "

Discovery, made by experts of " House of antique books in Nikitsky " aroused great interest among scientists archeographers and bibliographer .

Lenten lean - a rare manuscript , created a contemporary of Andrei Rublev , will be presented at auction XX "House of antique books in Nikitsky " December 11, 2013 .

Gaining manuscript " Lenten Triodion " , dating experts , paleography beginning of the XV century ( 1420s . ) , Can be considered not only an event for collectors of rare books and manuscripts , but also a unique phenomenon national scale .

Lenten - the book of worship of the Orthodox Church - contains three-song canon (" tripesntsy ") , hence the name of it . Instance , presented at the auction, is among the rarest specimens of old Russian literature . His scientific and cultural value is not confined to antiquity , it is multiplied by a multiple of the content part . In fact - this is a document that allows you to reconstruct the creative laboratory scribe beginning of the XV century. A large number of inserts and marginalia in the fields, and strikethrough text correction indicate textual ( editorial ) work on the manuscript .

Unknown scribe - obviously experienced scribe may have started its activities in the late XIV century , as evidenced by the type of his handwriting - set out to complement and enhance the text Triodi originally had in his possession. To do this they used the oldest - started before the Mongol invasion - Russian or Slavic manuscripts .

In front of us - a kind of creative era draft general rise of national culture , which began after the victory in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 . New phenomena in ancient culture - the resumption of construction of white stone churches , creativity Theophanes the Greek, Andrei Rublev , Epiphanius the Wise - were named Academician DS Likhachev Russian Predvozrozhdeniem . This manuscript , of course, belongs to the most interesting surviving monuments of the Middle Ages, marked the transition to the Russian revival and flourishing of culture , art and literature in Russia.
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You can read the manuscript on the pre-sale exhibition will be held from 6 to 11 December from 10 am to 20 pm ( daily except Mondays ) at the address : Moscow, Nikita lane. , 4a , page 1 . ("House of antique books in Nikitsky "). The auction will be held at the same place on December 11 at 19:00. On the purchase of directories and the receipt of information , contact tel . (985) 969 7745 or (495) 926 4114 .

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Traditional for the "House of antique books in Nikitsky " impressive selection of lifetime editions of Alexander Pushkin and his contemporaries. Among them - donative manuscript poem " Chechotka " GR Derzhavina dated 1805 year. The poem itself was first published only three years later in 1808 in the third volume of the teacher works of Pushkin , but this text contains multiple discrepancies with published . The manuscript is a collection value of the museum level , displayed at exhibitions and is accompanied by the conclusion of the Pushkin House .

Lifetime editions AS Griboyedov include first play, " young couple " ( 1815), and two copies of the comedy " Woe from Wit" (1833), half of the verses which, as predicted Pushkin entered the proverbs and sayings . One of the copies , which has historical and cultural value of the museum level , it is interesting that in his 11 sheets are woven with full transcripts of the censorship bills . All litters are made in the first half of the XIX century Oreshkovo ink. The other - in a luxurious podnosnogo marokenovom cover - contains an engraved portrait and facsimiles. In the literature it is known only a few such instances of comedy.

Another contemporary - NV Gogol presents the second edition of the "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" 1836.

The most famous works of AS Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" auction offers meeting individual chapters were published as they were written for seven years . The antique market a complete set of all the chapters of "Eugene Onegin " in the first edition has always been considered a rarity. Collection value is the Paris edition of " The Fountain of Bakhchisarai " in French (1826 ) , marked by a noted collector and bibliographer NP Smirnov - Sokolsky , as one of the rarest editions of Pushkin .

Pushkinianu in the visual arts is a sketch unpublished book "Ruslan and Ludmila " , made in the 1920s . Yaroslav Titov ( People's Artist of Russia ) . By 1929, refers autograph A. Tyrkova -Williams on the book "Life of Pushkin" , addressed to the famous artist Boris Grigoriev .

By the second half of the XIX century are rare editions of tabloids and adventure novels , including many works owned by one of the founders of the genre of French writer Xavier de Montepenu whose books , despite the impressive circulations were read almost to the holes and are now a rarity.

Under autographs noteworthy instance of " Sights of Moscow Kremlin " AM Veltman (1843), owned by Alexander Pavlovich Briullov with his autograph possessory ; few autographs Alexander Karlovich background Mecca in one of two albums of photographs and drawings known climber Nikolai Poggenpol dedicated climbing Elbrus in 1898 and Kazbek and Miley - Hoch in 1902 , Osip Mandelstam's autograph and an invitation to read his poems , autographs D. Mamin- Siberian, Ivan Bunin , Bryusov , A. and others Talkers