First edition of 1688 Bucharest Bible goes on display

The princeps edition of the Bucharest Bible printed in 1688 under the patronage of prince Serban Cantacuzino can be seen in the exhibition “From Tepes to Brancusi – 5 centuries of history and culture in the Romanian space,” which was opened last week at ARCUB – The Gabroveni Inn in Bucharest.

The event was organized by ARCUB in the context of the 563rd anniversary of the first attestation of the Romanian Capital and is part of the Bucharest Days series of events, AGERPRES reports.

The exhibition is open for viewing from Tuesday through Sunday, between 12:00 and 20:00, until October 22. Rare items from the Emilian Radu collections, as well as priceless relics from the collection of the National History Museum of Romania, are displayed for the first time.

The Bucharest public is invited to discover important exhibits about the history of the city, such as the princeps edition of the Bucharest Bible, the Greek-Romanian Gospel from Bucharest – edited and printed by St Anthimos the Iberian in 1693 at the Metropolitan Printing House of Bucharest, under the patronage of the Holy Prince Constantine Brancoveanu – and the princeps edition of the New Testament of Bucharest (1703).

“The exhibition is completed by three masterpieces of medieval culture in the heritage of the National History Museum of Romania, exhibits classified in the treasure category. Extremely precious due to their age and content, the Tetraevangelium of St. Nicodemus of Tismana and the Tetraevangelium of Hieromonk Spyridon are the first manuscripts copied by famous scholars from Romania and Moldova. The third exhibit from the MNIR heritage is the Altemberger Codex, which includes the rights and obligations of the Saxons in the period 1481-1700,” ARCUB reports.

Two depictions of prince Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), one from the 15th century and the other from the 20th century, are on display.

According to ARCUB, the exhibition’s main attraction is the historical ‘dialogue’ between the portrait engraved in 1491 of the Romanian prince Vlad Tepes and the famous work Dracula, created almost 500 years later by the pop artist Andy Warhol.

The international and contemporary dimension of the exhibition is completed by the Romanian image captured by the surrealist artist Man Ray in 1922 in a photograph of the French actress of Romanian origin Genica Athanasiou, two decades before La Blouse Roumaine by Matisse, a drawing of a future monument of Eve signed by Brancusi, exhibited in the international premiere, but also documents and photographs of the Romanian Royal House, mentions the quoted source.

Photo courtesy of Historia 

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