Readings for monastic meals // Чтения на монастырской трапезе // Chteniia na monastyrskoi trapeze [1910s-1930s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script by several hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (reader’s). Decoration: headings and initials with red pencil and red inks. The manuscript contains extracts from the Kormchaia Book [Book of the Pilot // Кормчая] about monastic meals [устроение трапезы] and extracts from the Prolog about Saint Onuphrius, Saint Macarius of Alexandria, Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow and Saint Blaise and Saint Agatha. Without a cover. Readers’ notes. 8° (manuscript size - 173 mm х 111 mm); 11 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.