Допълнителните конотации на инициала в група ръкописи, изработени във Влашкото княжество през XVII и първата четвърт на XVIII в.
The additional connotations of the initial in a group of manuscripts made in the Wallachian principality in the XVII and the first quarter of the XVIII century

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to present the specifics in the illumination of four liturgical manuscripts, written and decorated on the territory of Romania. This topic includes only few of the manuscripts written in the Balkan workshops during the 17-th and the beginning of the 18-th century. The features of their decoration make all of them part of the group of the so-called luxury codeces. The focus of the article is a phenomenon found in the decoration system of these four manuscripts. It consist in the extending of the function of the initial letter which adds new connotations to its initial meaning. The initial letter in the given manuscripts works as a decorative element strongly related with the meaning of the liturgical text that begins with it. This process took place in the Principality of Wallachia and was a result of the work of two Greek clerics on the territory of the Romanian principality – metropolitan Matei from Mira and bishop Luca from Buzău both of them were and skilled illuminators and authors of text, who left several well prepared dicipals who continued to work in principality of Wallachia and Moldavia.

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