Catechism (fragment) // Катехизиз (фрагмент) // Katekhiziz (fragment)

Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (the folio is numbered with “6”). Decoration: headings and thin initials are written with red inks. Source of rewritten text [supposedly] is Short Scientific Essays about Points of the Faith (Small Catechism) [Собрание краткия науки об артикулах веры (Малый Катехизис)]. М., 1649]. 1st half of the 20th century. 8° (manuscript size – 180 mm х 113 mm); 1 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.