Recreated handwritten books
The texts of ancient manuscripts are an invaluable source for a comprehensive study of history, the formation of the state and society.
History decreed that almost all the masterpieces of ancient Ukrainian handwritten books were either lost in the conflagrations of wars and invasions, or, being taken out, are stored in hard-to-reach book repositories abroad.
Khrapai Yuriy's manuscript workshop sees its task in making the pearls of ancient Ukrainian handwritten books more accessible to admirers of the history and book art of Rus'-Ukraine
Sermon on the Law and Grace of Hilarion, Metropolitan of Kiev
The manuscript was created in Kyiv in 2010-2011
Reconstruction of a text-based on a 15th-century manuscript. Large ustav font in 2 rows. The manuscript is decorated with frontispieces, headpieces, and initials in a teratological style.
Vegetable parchment, 160 pages.
Hagiographic tale of knyaz Mikhail of Chernigov and his boyar Fyodor
The manuscript was created in Kyiv in 2013-2014
Handwritten reconstruction of the text in calligraphic half-ustav font on birch bark. The manuscript is decorated with 9 miniatures, headband and handwritten initials in braided style.
Birchbark, 80 pages.
The Tale of Igor's Campaign (manuscript on birch bark)
The manuscript was created in Kyiv in 1986-1989
Handwritten reconstruction of the text with a stylized half-ustav font on birch bark. The manuscript is decorated with 4 miniatures, headpieces and initials in a braided and teratological style.
Birch bark, 80 pages
Teachings of Volodymyr Monomakh
The manuscript was created in Kyiv in 2015-2016
It contains a handwritten reconstruction of Volodimir Monomakh's Teachings to children. This is an outstanding monument of old Rus' literature of the XII century, the author of which is the Grand Kyiv Duke Volodimir Monomakh
Our manuscript reconstruction is based on the text of the Teachings of Volodimir Monomakh contained in the Laurentian Chronicle of 1377.
Pskov Judicial Charter
The manuscript was created in Chania, Crete. In 2019
It contains a handwritten reconstruction of the Pskov Judicial Charter - an outstanding monument of Old Rus' law.
The Pskov Judicial Charter is a set of legislative norms of the Pskov Republic of the 14th century
Our handwritten reconstruction is based on the text of the Vorontsov List (one of the two lists of the Pskov Judicial Charter known to us). This list is contained in the manuscript of Vorontsov's collection of the 16th century
