Extracts on Baptism // Выписки об обряде крещения // Vypiski ob obriade kreshcheniia [1962–1980s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script by 2 hands. The text on f. 1-5 was written by Mel'nikova Elena Osipovna, Mavra the nun [Мельникова Елена Осиповна, инокиня Мавра]. She was a resident of the Tomsk-Chulim skit in 1961/62-1994. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with colored inks; initials with floral ornament (f. 5); schematic end-piece (f. 5); end-piece in the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 11). The manuscript contains extracts from Kormchaia Book, Book of Needs [Trebnik // Требник], and The Book of the One, True, and Orthodox Faith [Книга о Вере единой истинной православной] on the rite and order of baptism. Without a cover. Reader’s notes. Enclosure: extracts on the baptism of children. 8° (manuscript size - 175 mm х 110 mm). Enclosure - 4 f. (130 mm х 81 mm); 14 f. 4 f. (enclosure); Condition: unsatisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.