Skit Repentance // Скитское покаяние // Skitskoe pokaianie [1930s-1940s]

Paper: school notebook. Writing style: half-uncial script. Decoration: headings and initials with red pencil. The manuscript contains the “Skit Repentance” [скитское покояние] (text is used both as monks’ self-confession and as a repentance cell prayer). Cover: cover of a school notebook. 4° (manuscript size – 204 mm х 165 mm); 11 f; Condition: unsatisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga. The manuscript has traces of old restoration (text on f. 4-5 was added or changed, notebook’s fold was strengthened with a fabric strip). Restoration date – 1950s-1970s (presumably); place of restoration – Taiga Skit of Old Believers-pilgrims.