Paper: 2 types of Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script by two hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s and owner’s/reader’s). Decoration: headpieces (including vyaz), initials and end-pieces with red gouache and black inks; head-pieces with geometric and floral ornament (f. 1, 19, 21, 32, 41, 97, 108, 128, 145, 159, 176, 190, 204, 205, 217); headings with vyaz (f. 21, 108, 128, 145, 159, 176, 190, 204, 217); ornament on margins with chapter numbers (f. 128, 145, 159, 176, 190, 204, 217); initials with floral ornament (f. 2, 3, 14, 22, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 41, 50, 57-60, 60, 62-74, 76, 77, 80, 83, 84, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 103, 110, 112, 114-117, 124, 137, 153, 160, 161, 168, 183, 198 об., 205, 206, 219, 232); end-pieces with floral ornament (f. 18, 20, 25, 31, 40, 81, 88, 96, 108, 127, 204); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 88, 96, 108, 127, 144, 159, 170, 175, 203, 231).
The Triodion [Lenten Triodion // Триодь] and Pentecostarion [Триодь цветная] is a liturgical book containing hymns and chants for the liturgical year characterized by alternating fasts and feasts. The manuscript is a version of the Pentecostarion [Триодь цветная] that had been used by the Russian Orthodox Church till the reforms of Patriarch Nikon (mid 17th century) and accepted by the Old Believers. The difference is in the fact that services start not in Pascha Week (Easter week) but on Lazarus Saturday. Compare the manuscript with the edition - the Pentecostarion. Moscow, Moscow Print Yard, 1948 – shows that a number of services in the manuscript are missed or cut. The first part - Palm Sunday week services and Friday and Saturday services of Holy week are cut; Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday services of Holy Week, Easter week and Thomas week [Fomina nedelia] services are missed; The second part doesn’t have Easter week and Thomas week services, the other services are cut. Binding – 18th century, wooden binding, leather with tooling, 2 clasps. Owner’s note and readers’ marks. Еnclosures: 1) instruction about the sequence of service “in the week on Lazarus Saturday” [в неделю на Лазареву субботу]; 2) instruction about the sequence of the All-night vigil. Manuscript-sammelband is compiled from texts, written in the 2nd half 19th century.
2º, size of book blocks – 350 mm x 215 mm, binding size – 370 mm x 225 mm, binding height – 62 mm. 2 enclosures: Enclosure #1 – 1 f. (98 mm x 203 mm), Enclosure #2 – 1 f. (230 mm х 340 mm); 243 f. 2 f. (enclosures); Condition: satisfactory. The sammelband was composed in the Taiga Skit of the Old Believers–Pilgrims. The binding was selected, closures were restored, and the book edge was colored.
