The article describes twelve woodcut sheets, each bearing images of saints and festivals for one month, and together comprising a “menology icon” for the whole year. They were printed at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv in the 1620s. The visual composition is known from eleventh/twelfth-century icons on Sinai, and reappears in Russia in the fifteenth century. These are the first printed and the first Ukrainian examples. Three copies are known, two complete. Each sheet bears in the upper margin a text from Scripture or from patristic or liturgical texts, not always immediately relevant to the month in question. The lower margins contain texts with seasonal observations and dietary recommendations emerging from a tradition ultimately derived from classical medicine with its preoccupations with both astrology and diet.
Keywords: calendar, menology, Kyiv Caves Monastery, cyrillic printing, woodcuts, medical texts