Troparion and Canon to the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” // Канон иконе Богородицы «Всех скорбящих радость» // Kanon ikone Bogoroditsy «Vsekh skorbiashchikh radost'» [1900s-1910s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Decoration: heading and initials with red inks; end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 10). The manuscript contains a hymn to the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”. In the folk Orthodox Christianity this hymn is considered effective for those who are suffering from incurable diseases and life's adversities. Reader’s note. Without a cover. 8°, manuscript size – 182 mm x 115 mm; 10 f; Condition: unsatisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.