Story about the Nasty Devil // Повесть о скверном бесе // Povest' o skvernom bese [1920s-1940s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (reader’s). Decoration: heading, header “о бесе” [about the devil], initial – red inks. This Old Believer story is known from manuscripts and lubki of the 18th century – 20th century; sometimes Scete Patericon [Cкитской патерик] is considered as the source of the Story; the Story has one more title in research literature - The Parable about vessels uncovered [Притча о непокровенных сосудах]. Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. Readers’ notes. Enclosure: prophecy about the samovar as the diabolical invention. 8° (manuscript size – 179 mm х 114 mm). Enclosure – 1 f. (220 mm х 176 mm); 4 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.