Extracts in Defense of Marriage // Выписки в защиту брака // Vypiski v zashchitu braka [1920s-1940s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (reader’s). Decoration: headings and initials with red inks and pencil. The manuscript contains quotations from essays of secular and church historians and theologians, and from the Orthodox journalism. The manuscript doesn’t have a ending. Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. Readers’ notes. The manuscript consists of 3 unsewn notebooks. Manuscript size - 8º (notebook #1 – 180 mm х 115 mm; notebook #2– 181 mm х 114 mm; notebook #3 – 176 mm х 110 mm); 22 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.