The exhibition "The Gospel of Isaac Birev" is the first in the joint project of the Andrey Rublev Museum and the Russian State Library: "Literary Treasures of the Trinity Sergius Lavra." This outstanding specimen of medieval Russian bookmaking from the holdings of the RSL is considered one of the best works of renowned calligraphist Isaac Birev (late 15th—first half of the 16th century), whose fate, caught up in the whirlpool of tempestuous events surrounding the reign of Ivan III, his son Vasily III, and his grandson Ivan IV ("the Terrible"), became intertwined with many illustrious people of that time. .This Gospel from 1531 became the standard for scribers, iconographers, and the first Mo