Flowery Triodion (Fiol)

Flowery Triodion (Old Church Slavonic: Triod' cvetnaja) is the one of the earliest surviving example of a work in Old Church Slavonic printed in Cyrillic script.[1]

Flowery Triodion
LanguageOld Church Slavonic
GenreSchweipolt Fiol
Publisher366 leaves
Publication date
before 1491
Publication placePoland

The book was published in Kraków by Schweipolt Fiol some time prior to 1491.[1] It contains prayers and the rite for the season of Easter in the Orthodox Church.[1] After World War II it was moved to the National Library of Poland.[1] This copy was kept in the Library of the Greek Catholic Chapter in Przemyśl.[1] It is decorated with 62 woodcuts of southern Slav initials with teratological motifs.[2] Triod’ cvetnaja has 366 leaves, measuring 31.5x21.5 cm, each having a 30-line column.[3]

Only 33 copies of this edition have survived, excluding fragments.[1] One of them from May 2024 is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth.[4][5]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Makowski & Sapała 2024, p. 88–89.
  2. ^ More precious than gold 2003, section ″The Lectionary″.
  3. ^ More precious than gold 2003, section ″Flowery Triodion″.
  4. ^ "Palace of the Commonwealth open to visitors". National Library of Poland. 2024-05-28. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  5. ^ Makowski & Sapała 2024, p. 60.

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