Extracts on beliefs // Выписки вероучительного характера // Vypiski verouchitel'nogo kharaktera [1920s-1940s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (reader’s). Decoration: headings and thin initials are written with red inks and red pencil. The manuscript contains extracts from the Epistle to the Hebrews by Paul the Apostle, the Gospel with Commentaries, The Book of Isaiah, Nomocanon, and exhortations of Ephrem the Syrian and Saint Gregory, Bishop of Homer (Omirits) about Christian faith and monastic life. Without cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. Readers’ notes. 8° (manuscript size – 179 mm х 111 mm); 8 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.