Theoktistos the Stoudite. The service for Jesus Christ (fragment) // Феоктист Студит. Служба Иисусу Христу (фрагмент) // Feoktist Studit. Sluzhba Iisusu Khristu (fragment) [1950s-1960s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing syle: half-uncial script by two hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with pink inks, head-pieces with floral ornament (f. 1, 2, 5, 6), initials with floral ornament (f. 1, 2, 5-7); end-piece with floral ornament added with the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 4), end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] (f. 2). The manuscript contains the initial part the service for Jesus Christ (Canons to Jesus and the Mother of God) - a liturgical work attributed to Theoktistos the Stoudite (a Byzantine hymnographer and hagiographer of the 14th century). Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewed together. 8° (manuscript size – 179 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.