Section 12. Biblical Manuscripts from Belarus
114. Polatsk Gospel
Polack. Late 12th – early 13th century. Facsimile. National Library of Belarus, Minsk. The main part of the original is in the collection of the National Library of Russia in Saint-Petersburg. Two leaves are in the collection of the Russian State Library in Moscow
Polack Gospel dated by late 12th-early 13th c. is an ancient artifact of the book culture of Belarus in Church Slavonic written in a beautiful uncial (an old form of Cyrillic) on parchment. Notes and entries on the Gospel’s margins have preserved the specifics of those times’ speech when the Belarusian language was being formed.