The first Eastern Slav Bible

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

"The history of printing began with the appearance the famous Bible,
printed in 1456-58 in Mainz by Johann Gutenberg...  ...the year 1506 saw
the publication of the Czech Bible, while the first Slavonic book in
Cyrillic script in Venice was printed in 1512. By coincidence, in the
same year 1512, only some twenty miles away, a young Belarusian scholar
obtained a degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Padua. His
name was Francis Skaryna who a few years later was destined to become
the first Belarusian printer...  ...Skaryna was the first, not only in
Belarus, but in Eastern Europe to use the new invention of printing to
bring the light of knowledge to his people...  ...At home in the West,
in his native country he was perhaps ahead of his time..." >>>
Full article here - http://www.pravapis.org/art_skaryna1.asp
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