Collected moral texts with Tale of Alcohol Beverage // Сборник нравоучений с Повестью о хмельном питии // Sbornik nravouchenii s Povest'iu o khmel'nom pitii [1890s-1910s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper with a stamp (under impression print, unidentified) (f. 6). Writing style: half-uncial script. Decoration: head-pieces, initials, headings – violet inks; head-pieces with floral ornament ( f. 1, 3, 7); initials with floral ornament ( f. 1, 3, 6, 7); schematic and added with so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects end-pieces (f. 6, 14). The manuscript contains moral stories from the collected texts the Skete Patericon [Патерик Скитский], Pchela [the Bee // Пчела] and an Old Russian Tale on Alcohol Beverages [Повесть о хмельном питии]. Cover: paper, spine – folio with handwritten text. Readers’ notes. 8° (manuscript size – 174 mm х 111 mm, cover size 174 mm х 111 mm); 14 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.