{"product_id":"poklin-marii-miunkhen-1947","title":"The Marianist: Ukrainian Emigration in Germany To the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Sovereign and Protectress of Ukraine. Munich, 1947","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Poklin of Mary: Ukrainian Emigration in Germany to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sovereign and Patroness of Ukraine \/ edited by Theodore Kurbita under the auspices of the church authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunich: published by the Religious Literature Publishing House, 1947. — 158, [2] pp., [1] frontispiece leaf: illustrations, musical notation. Printed by S. Slyusarchuk. Print run of 2,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is bound in an illustrated paper cover by Yulian Butsmaniuk, printed in brick-red and dark blue inks: on the front cover, the Pokrova of the Mother of God with an omophorion in a circle containing the title, and four medallions in the corners with winged figures above books; on the back cover, an ornamental initial “M” with the crowned Mother of God. Headpieces and tailpieces are after Ukrainian incunabula, Y. Butsmaniuk, and M. Mykhalevych; on the frontispiece leaf, a detail of the Vyshhorod (Volodymyr) icon of the Mother of God. The spine is reinforced with a strip of paper that extends across both covers. The cover is rubbed and soiled, with stains and watermarks, most noticeable in the upper corner of the back cover; creases and small tears along the edges. The paper shows natural yellowing, foxing on the frontispiece leaf; tears and a small loss of paper on the lower margin of the leaf preceding the title page. On the title page, there is a pencil inscription with the cipher “B III 153.” On the copyright leaf, the owner’s name “Petrenko Mokrena” is written twice in pencil, in Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Condition: restored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication from the DP camp era has historical and cultural value, while Yulian Butsmaniuk’s cover is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection, in which Ukrainian refugees in postwar Germany paid tribute to the Mother of God as the Sovereign and Patroness of Ukraine, was published in Munich in 1947 under the auspices of the church authorities. It opens with Fr. Mykola Voyakovsky’s article “On the Veneration of the Mother of God Among the Ukrainian People”; D. Bohun writes about miraculous icons of the Mother of God in Ukraine, and A. Voyakovska writes about Mount Stradest. The materials are devoted to the image of the Blessed Virgin in Ukrainian history, art, literature, and music; the title is also given in English, German, and French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compiler Theodore Kurbita (1913–1974) was a poet, prose writer, satirist, and editor, originally from Remezivtsi in the Zolochiv region. In postwar Germany, he edited the literary and artistic journal “Ridne Slovo” and the satirical “Yizhach-Komar”; he later lived in Chicago. Among his books are the collections “Na Dospiakh Vesnyanykh” (1934), “Blakytni Troyandy” (1966), and the satirical “Karykatury z Literatury” (1947).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover was designed by Yulian Butsmaniuk (1885–1967), a monumental painter, graduate of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and scholarship recipient of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky; he was a painter of the Presa apartment of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the artist who decorated the Basilian Church in Zhovkiv. In 1950, he moved to Canada and painted the Cathedral of St. Josaphat in Edmonton. The book was published as a supplement to the newspaper “Czas — The Time” by “Christos Nasza Syla,” with permission from the EUCOM Headquarters Civil Affairs Division dated July 14, 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67298000863603,"sku":"SKU-01104","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15635925172595.jpg?v=1793987303","url":"https:\/\/archivevam.com\/en\/products\/poklin-marii-miunkhen-1947","provider":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}