[Old Believer personal anthology of edificatory literature].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Church Slavic

Subjects (All):

Old Believers--Estonia.

Old Believers.

Estonia.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Mart Neilinn (eBay), 2016.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Prichudie, Estonia], [between 1850 and 1899]

Language Note:

Church Slavic.

Summary:

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).

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).

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 2028.

OCLC:

1125130685

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