Theoktistos the Stoudite. The service for Jesus Christ (fragment) // Феоктист Студит. Служба Иисусу Христу (фрагмент) // Feoktist Studit. Sluzhba Iisusu Khristu (fragment) [1870s–1900s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with red inks, initial wit floral ornament (f. 5); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игратекстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 4). The manuscript contains the initial part the service for Jesus Christ (Canons to Jesus and the Mother of God) - a liturgical work attributed to Theoktistos the Stoudite (a Byzantine hymnographer and hagiographer of the 14th century). Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. 8° (manuscript size – 178 mm х 111 mm); 6 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.