It was made between 15 August 1556 and 29 August 1561 at the
Bernardine Monastery, Iziaslav in the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Monastery of the Mother of God in
Peresopnytsia (now in Ukraine). The scribe was Mykhailo Vasylovych, the son of an
archpriest from
Sianik, who worked under the direction of Hryhorii, the
archimandrite of the Peresopnytsia Monastery. The Peresopnytsia Gospel contains the four
Gospels of the
New Testament. It is ornamented with
Cyrillic characters, which were influenced by the
Italian Renaissance style. It is the first known example of a
Ruthenian translation of the
canonical text of the
Scriptures. The Gospel was commissioned by , an Orthodox princess from
Volyn, and her daughter and son-in-law Yevdokiya and Ivan Fedorovych
Czartoryski. After its completion, the book was kept in the Peresopnytsya Monastery. On 17 April 1701, it was presented to
Pereyaslav Cathedral by
Ivan Mazepa, the
hetman of Ukraine. Scholar
Osip Bodyansky discovered the book at the Pereyaslav Seminary and published a paper on the subject. Later on it was kept in the
Poltava Seminary, Poltava Museum of History and Regional Studies,
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra preserve. On 24 December 1948, it was placed at the
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. ==Ukrainian presidential oath of office==