Latvijas Pasts issues a new postage stamp and envelope dedicated to one of the oldest cultural and historical monuments in Latvia – the 1270 parchment handwriting “Gospel of Jersika”.
Latvijas Pasts was informed that the visual design of the philatelic publications used the image of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord Jersika, as well as reproductions of illustrations and manuscripts from the 2014 facsimile edition of the Gospel of Jersika.
The stamping of the first day of the stamp is planned for August 21, 2020 at the Riga Latvian Society House in Riga, Merkela Street 13, from 10.00 to 18.00.
To mark the 750th anniversary of the Gospel of Jersika, Latvijas Pasts issues a new stamp in a circulation of 50,000 copies and a special envelope in 1,000 copies. The face value of the postage stamp is € 1.00, and it corresponds to the payment of letter correspondence in the weight category up to 20 grams in the territory of Latvia.
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“Jersika Gospel”, also called “Latvian Gospel”, is one of the oldest monuments of Latvian culture and history, which belongs to both Latvian and Russian culture.
This medieval manuscript, completed on March 23, 1270, was created in ancient Russian by the book rewriter Jurģis (Georgijs). The personality and talent of the book rewriter Jurģis developed in ancient Jersika, on the banks of the Daugava, which has been mentioned many times in historical sources and is surrounded by legends, and was not only an important center of crafts and trade, but also of spiritual culture.
Today, the ancient manuscript is kept among the rarities in the collections of the Russian State Library Rumyantsev, which once belonged to the prominent patron Count Nikolai Rumyantsev. In 2014, the Latvian Orthodox Church published the world’s first facsimile edition of the Latvian Gospel.
The postage stamp and envelope “Jersikas Gospel – 750” will initially be available at Riga 10th post office at 14/43 Elizabetes Street, Riga 50th post office in shopping center “Origo”, Stacijas Square 2, post office “Sakta” at 32 Brīvības Boulevard, Riga, as well as in the Latvijas Pasts e-store.
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