"The Order of the Midnight Office (weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday) // Чин полунощницы повседневной, субботней и воскресной // Chin polunoshchnitsy povsednevnoi, subbotnei i voskresnoi [1890s-1900s]"

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials were highlighted with purple inks. The manuscript contains the order of the midnight office (weekdays, Saturday, and Sunday). The midnight office is one of the Canonical Hours that compose the cycle of daily worship reading in the middle of the night or early morning. Сover: paper, textile. Reader’s note. Еnclosure: quotations from the Gospel of Luke and John Chrysostom's Margarit. 8º (manuscript size – 188 mm х 119 mm, cover size – 188 mm х 121 mm). Enclosure – 1 f. (175 mm х 118 mm); 20 f. 1 f. (enclosure); Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.