The Order of Service for Burial // Чин погребения // Chin pogrebeniia [1st half of the 20th century]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (reader’s). Decoration: heading and initials with pink inks; headpieces with geometric ornament (f. 1, 22); initials with floral ornament (f. 22, 23, 26, 27); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 21). The manuscript contains the order of service for burial of laity and infants. Binding: 3rd quarter of the 20th century; plywood, textile. A letter is glued to the binding covers (pencil, cursive writing). 4° (size of book block – 223 mm х 182 mm, binding size - 235 mm х 190 mm, binding height - 18 mm); 34 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript is made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga. The manuscript has traces of restoration: breaks were glued, flyleafs were filed, binding was made (replaced?). Restoration time – 3rd quarter of 20th century; place of restoration – skit of the Old Believers–Pilgrims.