[Old Believer personal anthology of edificatory literature]

Date:

1850

Description:

Personal compilation of lives of saints (including Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker, Saint Catherine, Saint Iuliania, and Saint Anastasia), readings from Church fathers such as John Chrysostom, and other paraliturgical texts (Julia Verkholantsev, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania).

Language:

Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic

Provenance:

Sold by Mart Neilinn (eBay), 2016.

Subject:

Old Believers -- Estonia; Old Believers

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

215 leaves : paper; 340 x 215 (240-270 x 150-160) mm bound to 350 x 230 mm

Geographic Subject:

Estonia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, [1-148], lower right recto, remaining leaves unfoliated.; Layout: Written in 22-25 long lines; ruled in drypoint (visible f. 107r, 124r).; Decoration: Decorative upper borders in red and black ink at textual divisions; introductory text in red ink at textual divisions; decorated initials in red and black ink.; Paper: Embossed stamps, f. 90-94, lower left recto; f. 166, upper left recto; Binding: 19th-century leather, blind-ruled; remnants of two pairs of clasps on the fore-edge; spine damaged; printed pastedowns.; Origin: Written in the Prichudie region on the western coast of Lake Peipus in Estonia, in the second half of the 19th century (Julia Verkholantsev).; Church Slavic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 2028