Peresopnytsya

Peresopnytsya stands on the Stubla River in Volhynia. In the twelfth century it was the seat of a principality and one of the important towns of the Horyn basin. Its monastery later gave its name to the Peresopnytsia Gospel, an illuminated manuscript written in Ruthenian between 1556 and 1561. Work began at a monastery in Iziaslav and was completed at Peresopnytsya on 29 August 1561. The scribe Mykhailo Vasylovych worked under the direction of Hryhorii, the local monastery's archimandrite. The manuscript preserves an important example of religious writing and book art from the region.