Canon to Saints Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor // Канон Козме и Дамиану Ассийским // Kanon Kozme i Damianu Assiiskim [1980s-1990s]

Paper: school notebook. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headpieces and thin initials with a red marker pen. The manuscript contains hymns and chants dedicated to brothers Saints Cosmas and Damian, in Orthodox tradition they were endowed with the gift of treating and named “Holy Unmercenaries” [бессребреники] (an epithet applied to a number of Christian saints who did not accept payment for good deeds). Binding: notebook cover upon which the title “Canon” is written. 8º, manuscript size – 206 mm x 170 mm; 9 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.