On May 18, the Pedestal one-day exhibition, timed to the International Museum Day, ran in the Book Museum.
Which books took the winning places at the museum pedestal?
The most precious exhibit – the greatest treasure of the culture of Belarus – is the Bible, which had been prepared and published by printing pioneer, educator and humanist Francysk Skaryna. The KINGS, a set of four books of the Old Testament, published in Prague in 1518, were on display.
The oldest is the oriental manuscript of the fourteenth century, the COMMENTARY ON SUNNAH (1377), written in Arabic. It originates from Count Paskevich’s Gomel collection. The book comments the Sunnah, the body of religious and philosophical literature, which represents the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad. The manuscript was shown for the first time.
The most unusual exhibit is the NANO-BIBLE (2014), made in the form of a microchip. It is registered in the Guinness World Records as the smallest Bible in the world. Its size is 5x5 mm. The nano-Bible can be read only with the aid of a microscope with a magnification of 10 thousand.
Bibliology Research Department
