What was the Ostroh Bible, printed in Ukraine in 1581?

The Ostroh Bible is printed

Острозька Біблія

1581. Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi, one of the richest magnates of the Commonwealth, gathered scholars at his town of Ostroh in Volhynia.

Where: Ukraine

What happened

Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi, one of the richest magnates of the Commonwealth, gathered scholars at his town of Ostroh in Volhynia. There the printer Ivan Fedorov, who had already printed the Apostol in Lviv in 1574, printed the Ostroh Bible in 1581: the first complete printed Bible in Church Slavonic. The scholars compared Greek, Slavonic and Latin texts to make it. Copies travelled far beyond Ukraine. Fedorov died in Lviv in 1583.

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Острозька Біблія вийшла у 1581 році.

The Ostroh Bible came out in 1581.

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