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 переписан духовный стих о пьянстве и сатане. Рукопись переписана на листах школьной тетради. Почерк рукописи свидетельствует о том, что переписчик учился в советской школе, но орфография говорит о его малограмотности.
Extent: 4 folios sewn togetrher.
Size and dimensions of original material: Height 20,5 cm, width 17 cm.
Condition of original material: The manuscript has not binding or cover. The lower part of the last sheet is torn away and lost. This last folio had not any text.
Custodial history: The manuscript was collected during the archeographical expedition to the Kargopol region in 1980.
Keywords: Old Believers, Poetry.
