EAP834/1/1/24

Paper of body text: 1) Russian machine-made paper without labels, 2) Russian machine-made paper with stamp - under impression print, unidentified (f. 10, 87), 3) Russian machine-made paper with a stamp - was not found in reference books (f. 85-87). Paper of additional texts: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script by several hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with red ink (body text), colored inks (additional texts), headpieces with floral ornament (f.1, 44, 64, 76); miniature pictures (an image of the guardian angel, f. 43); initials with floral ornament (f. 57, 59, 61, 62, 64, 76); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [igra tekstom, игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 59, 61 об., 88, 89).

The manuscript contains a service for Jesus Christ - a liturgical work attributed to Theoktistos the Stoudite, a Byzantine hymnographer and hagiographer of the 14th century (body text), prayer from Service Of Purification and a set of rituals and prayers for the ritual purification of food and beverages. Binding: the 2nd half of the 18th century, wooden binding, leather with tooling, a clasp and a fragments of clasp. Reader’s notes and textile bookmarks glued to folios. 1890s -1900s (with additional texts of the 1st half of the 20th century)

8º, size of the book block – 172 mm x 113 mm, size of the book binding – 188 mm x 117 mm, height of the binding – 30 mm; 104 f. = f. I-II + III-IV (additional texts of the 1st half of the 20th century on hemmed folios) + 1-88 + 89-99 (additional texts of the 1st half of the 20th century, readers` notes of the 2nd half of the 20th century and empty) + V; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was acquired by the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga. The manuscript was restored in the Taiga Skit of the Old Believers–Pilgrims (restoration date is unknown) – a folio was backed to the upper case (a fragment of the Akathist to Jesus Christ, the 19th century).