 I kept the leaves, gold and two column words. I added a Pelican on the right hand side for the award. I wanted elegance, clean and simple. The original is housed in the Morgan Library, it is a Breviary, Italy, 1350-1400. |  |
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I pared down the design to the essential elements, and added the Silver Crescent badge at the bottom. I collaborated with Yehuda ben Moshe on the Rus language, correct use of letters and correct use of documents in the time period of the eleventh century.
Words: Inspired by Charter # 81, pp. 140-141 – 1130, “Charter of Great Knyaz Mstisla Vladimirovicha and his son Vsevoloda to the Novgorod Yuriev monastery for the village of Byutsi and a silver dish”. From “Gramoty Velikogo Novgoroda i Pskova” (Charters of Great Novgorod and Pskov), Moscow, 1949
Illumination inspired by The Ostromir Gospels, 1056 or 1057, the year 6564 in the Byzantine calendar. The Ostromir Gospels is the oldest dated book of Kievan Rus.
Words: Inspired by Charter # 81, pp. 140-141 – 1130, “Charter of Great Knyaz Mstisla Vladimirovicha and his son Vsevoloda to the Novgorod Yuriev monastery for the village of Byutsi and a silver dish”. From “Gramoty Velikogo Novgoroda i Pskova” (Charters of Great Novgorod and Pskov), Moscow, 1949
Illumination inspired by The Ostromir Gospels, 1056 or 1057, the year 6564 in the Byzantine calendar. The Ostromir Gospels is the oldest dated book of Kievan Rus.
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