Les trésors du monastère de Râșca à Kiev
Treasures of Râșca Monastery in Kyiv

Summary/Abstract: The Slavonic inscription discovered under the sheathing of “Theophanes’” carved wooden cross from the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve allows us to assume that the cross was initially donated to a church of the Moldavian monastery of Râșca. The monastery’s “Nativity of St John the Baptist” Church was founded by Metropolitan Theophanes II of Suceava. During his lifetime, this hierarch also offered to this church and to the monastery several precious manuscripts. One of them belongs to the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (f. 301, nr. 43 L), two others are in Bucharest (BAR, Slav., nr. 505) and in Moscow (collection of M. S. Byvshev). The Kyivan blessing cross was thus part of a group of donations (displaying dedicatory inscriptions) which Theophanes bestowed to Râșca.

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