Serbian medieval manuscripts - 18 ornaments: Artistic reproduction of the 18 most beauiful Serbian medieval manuscripts

Collection of famous Serbian manuscripts, artistically reproduced by Svetislav Strala. The luxurious box contains 18 drawings of miniatures, initials and handwritten text.
Strala was a painter of Polish descent, born in 1891.
The drawings come in a luxurious leather box resembling medieval bindings, late XXc made by famous bookbinder Aleksandar Ćeklić.

Strala came to Serbia in 1917 as an Austrian soldier. In Belgrade, he worked for a time as the manager of the modern art collection and restorer at the National Museum. From 1933 he was a drawing teacher at the gymnasium, and from 1941 he taught watercolor at the Technical Faculty. After the war, he worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Architecture.

Strala has drawn over three hundred reproductions of the ornaments of medieval monasteries but his works on reproducing manuscripts is lesser known.

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