Vespers // Вечерня // Vechernia [1870s-1910s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper with a stamp of the manufacture of А. Sumkin the merchant’s heirs, Vologda Governorate, had been made in 1869, 1909. [ref.: Клепиков С.А. Филиграни и штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XVII-XX вв. М., 1959. № 202]. Writing style: half-uncial script. The manuscript has Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with colored inks, initials with floral ornament (f. 1, 5, 6), heading with vyaz (f. 1). The manuscript contains Vespers, the sunset evening prayer service, reading “alone in a cell” [наедине в келии]. Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. 8° (manuscript size – 177 mm х 111 mm); 8 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.