THE DECALOGUE
Exodus 20:2–17
Short description:
This was the first edition of the Decalogue that our publishing house produced. The design of the book, its format, the materials used, the graphic art, colour and texture are all intended to recreate the historical flavour and spirit of the Exodus, the time when the Ten Commandments were first revealed to humanity. This publication was accorded its own individual exhibition in the State Hermitage in 2006.
Artists:
Edition:
25 copies numbered and signed by the publisher and the artist. Copy № 1 is in the collection of the State Hermitage.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
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Year of publication:2005
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Number of pages:10 sheets
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Dimensions:370 × 245 × 135 mm
Language:
Hebrew, Russian, Latin, English, German, French, Spanish, Greek
Materials: tooled leather, earthenware (copies 1-11), bone china (copies 12-25), ceramic, glaze, decalcomania, original hand-laid paper.
The Ten Commandments (or Decalogue) are a collection of legislative injunctions that, according to the Bible, were handed down by God on Mount Sinai in the third month after the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. The first four commandments are in the nature of religious laws, while the rest reflect universal ethical standards. Originally, the Ten Commandments were written on two stone tablets and placed in the Ark of the Covenant. In the book, as in the original Ancient Hebrew text, the Decalogue is presented without internal divisions into individual rules.
In 2006, the Hermitage held an exhibition devoted to this edition. In 2008, the first copy of a second edition, The Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 5:6–21, was brought out.
Participants in the work on this publication:
Concept and design of the book — Mikhail Kopylkov
Type layouts for the title page, translations and colophon — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Embossing, printing on leather — Andrei Degtev (copies 1–7),
Andrei Kulikov (copies 8–25)
Production of the original hand-laid paper — Valentin Belenky
Making the case — the firm Delovye Sistemy (Moscow, Russia)
Scholarly consultants — Polina Monakhovskaya, Semion Yakerson, Sergei Takhtasiev, archpriest Vladimir Fedorov
Technical consultants — Sergei Rusakov, Yadviga Peteritcina, Victor Anipko, Victor Nikolsky
Concept and design of the book — Mikhail Kopylkov
Type layouts for the title page, translations and colophon — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Embossing, printing on leather — Andrei Degtev (copies 1–7),
Andrei Kulikov (copies 8–25)
Production of the original hand-laid paper — Valentin Belenky
Making the case — the firm Delovye Sistemy (Moscow, Russia)
Scholarly consultants — Polina Monakhovskaya, Semion Yakerson, Sergei Takhtasiev, archpriest Vladimir Fedorov
Technical consultants — Sergei Rusakov, Yadviga Peteritcina, Victor Anipko, Victor Nikolsky
The artist Mikhail Kopylkov presented the tablets bearing Decalogue in the form of a book consisting of ten leaves (corresponding to the number of commandments) covered with sheep leather. In the centre of the front side of each leaf there is a bone china plaque in the form of a matzo, onto which one commandment in Ancient Hebrew has been applied using the overglaze decalcomania technique (in which a highly durable image made with special paints based on metallic salts is applied and then fired).
The multilingual translations of the commandments were printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press on original hand-laid paper.
The multilingual translations of the commandments were printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press on original hand-laid paper.
The cover of the book is decorated with a bronze relief depicting the Tablets of the Law (or Covenant) against the background of a sheet of unleavened bread (matzo).
The case for the book is made of elm wood and imitates the Ark of the Covenant, where, the Bible tells us, the tablets bearing the Ten Commandments were kept.
The pages of the book are joined together by bronze hinges of an original design.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
About this edition
About this edition:
-
Year of publication:2005
-
Number of pages:10 sheets
-
Dimensions:370 × 245 × 135 mm
Language:
Hebrew, Russian, Latin, English, German, French, Spanish, Greek
Materials: tooled leather, earthenware (copies 1-11), bone china (copies 12-25), ceramic, glaze, decalcomania, original hand-laid paper.
The Ten Commandments (or Decalogue) are a collection of legislative injunctions that, according to the Bible, were handed down by God on Mount Sinai in the third month after the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. The first four commandments are in the nature of religious laws, while the rest reflect universal ethical standards. Originally, the Ten Commandments were written on two stone tablets and placed in the Ark of the Covenant. In the book, as in the original Ancient Hebrew text, the Decalogue is presented without internal divisions into individual rules.
In 2006, the Hermitage held an exhibition devoted to this edition. In 2008, the first copy of a second edition, The Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 5:6–21, was brought out.
Participants in the work on this publication:
Concept and design of the book — Mikhail Kopylkov
Type layouts for the title page, translations and colophon — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Embossing, printing on leather — Andrei Degtev (copies 1–7),
Andrei Kulikov (copies 8–25)
Production of the original hand-laid paper — Valentin Belenky
Making the case — the firm Delovye Sistemy (Moscow, Russia)
Scholarly consultants — Polina Monakhovskaya, Semion Yakerson, Sergei Takhtasiev, archpriest Vladimir Fedorov
Technical consultants — Sergei Rusakov, Yadviga Peteritcina, Victor Anipko, Victor Nikolsky
Concept and design of the book — Mikhail Kopylkov
Type layouts for the title page, translations and colophon — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Embossing, printing on leather — Andrei Degtev (copies 1–7),
Andrei Kulikov (copies 8–25)
Production of the original hand-laid paper — Valentin Belenky
Making the case — the firm Delovye Sistemy (Moscow, Russia)
Scholarly consultants — Polina Monakhovskaya, Semion Yakerson, Sergei Takhtasiev, archpriest Vladimir Fedorov
Technical consultants — Sergei Rusakov, Yadviga Peteritcina, Victor Anipko, Victor Nikolsky
Text
The artist Mikhail Kopylkov presented the tablets bearing Decalogue in the form of a book consisting of ten leaves (corresponding to the number of commandments) covered with sheep leather. In the centre of the front side of each leaf there is a bone china plaque in the form of a matzo, onto which one commandment in Ancient Hebrew has been applied using the overglaze decalcomania technique (in which a highly durable image made with special paints based on metallic salts is applied and then fired).
The multilingual translations of the commandments were printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press on original hand-laid paper.
The multilingual translations of the commandments were printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press on original hand-laid paper.
Binding
The cover of the book is decorated with a bronze relief depicting the Tablets of the Law (or Covenant) against the background of a sheet of unleavened bread (matzo).
The case for the book is made of elm wood and imitates the Ark of the Covenant, where, the Bible tells us, the tablets bearing the Ten Commandments were kept.
The pages of the book are joined together by bronze hinges of an original design.
THE DECALOGUE
Exodus 20:2–17
One of the publishing house’s most extraordinary books