Paper: 1) Russian machine-made paper without labels (f. 1-2, 39-43, 48-49, 54-74, 82, 91-105), 2) Russian machine-made paper with a stamp of the Kosinskaia manufacture of Riazantsevs the merchants,Vyatka Governorate(f. 3-38), 3) Russian machine-made paper with stamp of the Rzhevskaia manufacture of A. Obraztsov and co., Tver Governorate (f. 44-47, 50-53, 79-81, 83-90); Russian machine-made paper with a stamp of the Uglichskaia manufacture, Yaroslavl Governorate (f. 75-78). Paper had been made in 1884-1904 [ref.: Клепиков С.А. Филиграни и штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XVII-XXвв. М., 1959. № 175, 169, 99]. Writing style: half-uncial script by several hands.
Décorartion: headings and initials painted with vermillion and colored inks, heading painted with colored pencils on f. 96 added presumably in 2nd half of the 20 century.; chematic headpieces (f. 3, 75); initials with floral ornament (f. 7, 10, 17, 38, 40-42, 44- 46, 53, 55-61, 63-65, 68-71, 73, 74-79, 82, 83, 85-89, 91-94, 96, 98-101); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 17, 26, 33, 37). The sammelband contains hymns for several Orthodox feast days and Saints. The stolp notation was developed as a refinement of the Byzantine notation and it is not written with notes (the so-called linear notation). This notation system records transitions of the melody, rather than notes. The signs (“hooks” [крюки]) represent a mood and a gradation of how this part of melody is to be sung (tempo, strength, devotion, meekness, etc.).
Only the Alphabet Prayer is given with out the stolp notation (f. 2). The Alphabet Prayer is anacrostic spelling out the letters of the Early Cyrillic alphabet that represents the fundamental beliefs of the Orthodox Church in an easily remembered form. It is considered one of the early Slavic poems. Without cover. Enclosure: ration stamps printed with letterpress printing process (ration cards for bread). Manuscript-sammebland is compiled from texts written in 1880s-1910s. 4° (notebook size – 215 mm x 172 mm, height of book block – 150 mm). Enclosure - 1 f. (54 mm x 38 mm); 105 f. 1 f. (enclosure); Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was composed by the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.
