ABOUT READING THE MINIATURE OF THE BIBLE COMPILATION BY MATTHEW THE TENTH 1507
The article is about a little-known and almost unexplored monument of Russian medieval art - a miniature from the Biblical Code of Matthew the Tenth (BAN. Collect. Sreznevsky, II. No. 75). Created at the beginning of the 16th century by Matthew Ivanovich the Tenth, the manuscript is unique for its time. It is a set of texts of the Old and New Testaments that existed in Orthodox liturgical practice in translations into the Slavic language. The decoration of the manuscript, including numerous ornamental forms and miniatures, is recognized as an outstanding work and executed by the master. The miniature opens the Book of Psalms and in a complex multi-tiered composition synthesizes plots dedicated to the deeds of King David the psalmist. The original composition created by the Russian master Matthew the Tenth reveals multiple parallels with Greek, South Slavic, Russian, and Western European illuminated psalters and other book monuments. These parallels, to varying degrees, reveal the mechanisms of cultural interaction that are characteristic of the region where the book was created - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vilnius, Suprasl Monastery) - and time - the beginning of the 16th century.