Archive Reference (shelfmark): EAP1017/1 / Language: Russian / Subject: Education - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1017/1
Title:: Каргопольское собрание
Scope & Content:: The physical collection includes 404 manuscripts of 15th - 20th centuries. This digitised collection contains 150 manuscripts. The manuscripts were collected and brought by librarians of Russian Academy of Sciences Library during several archeorgaphical expeditions. They took place in 1965-68 an...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Church Slavic and Russian
Date Range:: 15th century-20th century
Extent:: 21258 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1017/1/142
Title:: Духовные стихи о пьянстве
Scope & Content:: The manuscript consists of several sheets from a school copy-book with sacred poems about hard drinking and about satan. The scribe learnt in Soviet school as he had a typical clerky hand, but his spelling evidences about his illiteracy. Рукопись представляет собой несколько листов, на которых ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Russian
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 20th century
Extent:: 9 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1017/1/148
Title:: Молитва святому Сисинию от трясовиц
Scope & Content:: A prayer to Saint Sisinius whom some people believed to be able to help a sick man suffered from fever. In Old Russia it was believed that the cause of fever were severe Triasovits who were sisters-daimons according to Slavonic legends. Old believers kept this faith. The prayer was written in th...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Church Slavic and Russian
Date Range:: Mid 20th century
Extent:: 5 TIFF images

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