11. Add MS 57525
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 57525
- Title:
- SERVICE BOOK OF THE OLD BELIEVER SECT: services for Palm Sunday with hooked musical notation without staves; [Northern?] Russia, early 19th cent. Church Slavonic. See R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (1988), no. 87. The volume may be identified as an Old Believer manuscript on the basis of the staveless notation. The adherence to a corrected spelling and black priznaki, rejected by more extremist Old Believer groups following reforms du...
- Scope & Content:
- Bindings RUSSIAN: Red leather over boards, with gilt stamping of Christ in Majesty: early 19th cent. Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Art. Illuminations and Drawings RUSSIAN: Noted Service Book of the Old Believer Sect: early 19th cent.: Slavonic.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Slavic languages
- Date Range:
- Early 19th century
- Extent:
- 1 item