Collected homiletic texts with the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 // Сборник назидательного характера с Повестью о взятии Царьграда турками в 1453 г. // Sbornik nazidatel'...

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels (2 types: thick letter-paper and sheets of ledger). Writing style: half-uncial script by several hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings and initials with red inks and red pencil, initial with floral ornament (f. 21). The manuscript contains several groups of texts: 1) the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 [Повесть о взятии Царьграда турками в 1453 году] [known as “Хронографический извод Повести о падении Царьграда по Уваровскому II списку”; pub.: Зимин А.А. Сочинения Ивана Пересветова. М. –Л., 1956. С. 211–216]; 2) full text and abridgement of the Tale about lestovka [Сказания о лестовке]; 3) fragments from The Lives of Great Martyrs Procopius of Scythopolis, Anthony, John, and Eustathius; 4) homiletic extracts from Epistle of John the Apostle, essays of John Chrysostom and Nil Sorsky, collected texts Peaceful Circle [Миротворный круг] and the Kirillova Kniga [Kirill’s book // Кириллова книга], 5) extracts from the Kormchaia Book [Book of the Pilot // Кормчая and the Book of Needs [Trebnik // Требник] (description of religious practice for protecting wells, punishment for married couples’ sins and for parents whose children died). Cover: letter-paper. Readers’ notes. 16º. (manuscript size – 136 mm х 101 mm); 42 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.