Skip to main content

The museum is temporarily closed to visitors. The collection, exhibitions and events are online.What’s available now

The museum is temporarily closed. The collection and exhibitions are online. What’s available

Book “Gospel”, inv. no. КБ-6905: cover or title page
Photo 1 of 1
Book “Gospel”, inv. no. КБ-6905: cover or title page
Image 1 of 1
  • Photos · 1
  • Full description

Books and booklets

Gospel

Inv. no. КБ-6905 · Books and booklets

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities

The Gospel was printed in 1918. Full description

Date
20th century
Material
Paper, cardboard, calico
Technique
Printing
Dimensions
18 × 12 cm

Photo: M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum · CC BY 4.0

Book pages

368 pages. High-resolution scans you can zoom into.

Description

The Gospel was printed in 1918.

Printed in a single color, the text in Church Slavonic. Letter pagination appears in the upper outer corners of the pages. The edition is decorated with running heads and initials.

On the front flyleaf is a provenance note in the form of a handwritten text in graphite pencil: "This book, from May 1, 1918."

The cover is of stiff cardboard, covered in dark-blue calico. The front cover is decorated with an ornamental frame of winding floral ornament, at whose center is a shaped cartouche with an eight-pointed cross.

It was donated to the museum by Volodymyr Stepanovych Cherviakov of Kharkiv in 1979.

Record

Inventory number
КБ-6905
Title
Gospel
Collection group
Books and booklets
Date
20th century
Material
Paper, cardboard, calico
Technique
Printing
Dimensions
18 × 12 cm
Digitisation
Project “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities”, 2026
Pages
368

Updated 15 Oct 2026

Where else to meet this objectWhere else

Other objects in “Books and booklets”

The whole group