Extracts on Christian virtues // Выписки о христианских добродетелях // Vypiski o khristianskikh dobrodeteliakh [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 essays of Gregory of Nazianzus and Maximus the Greek, Blagovestnik [Благовестник] (the explanation of the Gospels by Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria) and the book “Starchestvo” [Eldership // Старчество] (collection of texts dedicated to the monastic life). Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. Readers’ notes. The manuscript consists of 2 unsewn notebooks, manuscript size 8º (notebook #1– 179 mm х 110 mm; notebook #2 – 176 mm х 110 mm); 16 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.