Flowery Triodion (Fiol)

Flowery Triodion (Old Church Slavonic: Triod' cvetnaja) is the one of the earliest surviving example of a work in Old Church Slavonic printed in Cyrillic script.

The book was published in Kraków by Schweipolt Fiol some time prior to 1491. It contains prayers and the rite for the season of Easter in the Orthodox Church. After World War II is was moved to the National Library of Poland. This copy was kept in the Library of the Greek Catholic Chapter in Przemyśl. It is decorated with 62 woodcuts of southern Slav initials with teratological motifs. Triod’ cvetnaja has 366 leaves, measuring 31.5x21.5 cm, each having a 30-line column.

Only 33 copies of this edition have survived, excluding fragments. One of them from May 2024 is presented at a permanent exhibition in the Palace of the Commonwealth.