12 unsewn folios and notebooks collected under one cover and having Cyrillic numeric pagination of several parts made by a compiler.
Part #1 - 1 f. (f. 1 according to consecutive numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts about celebrating Lazarus Saturday from the Pentecostarion published in Moscow in 1604.
Part #2 - 6 f. (f. 2-7 according to consecutive numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains an Old Believer Spiritual verse “about four brothers” [четыре брата]: khmel' [hops, хмель – an alcohol beverage made from hops], tobacco, tea and coffee.
Part #3 - 4 f. (f. 8-11 according to consecutive numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains the enumeration of 12 “friends” of a Christian (truth, love, labour, obedience etc.). The text doesn’t have an ending; the possible source is Book-of-Life [Животная книга] of the Doukhobors [Spirit-Wаrriors of Christ // Духоборцы] – Russian religious group ideologically close to Quakers of English origin.
Part #4 – 4 f. (f. 12-15 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the essays of Nil Sorsky on struggling with sin of gluttony.
Part #5 – 8 f. (f. 16-23 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the Gospels According to Luke and Matthew, the Acts of the Apostles, the Live of John the Apostle, essays of Cyril of Jerusalem, and a polemic treatise Apokrisis of Christopher Philaleth on responsibilities of a Christian.
Part #6 – 8 f. (f. 24-31 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the essays of Theodore the Studite and collected religious and edifying texts Dioptra [Зерцало душезрительное] on the Christian virtues.
Part #7 – 2 f. (f. 32-33 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the Apostle about apostolic preaching.
Part #8 – 2 f. (f. 34-35 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the Catechism about diabolic temptation.
Part #9 – 1 f. (f. 36 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: sheets of ledger with glued typographic text. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the essay of John Zonaras on fasting.
Part #10 – 1 f. (f. 37 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains The Message of The Sign of The Cross [Slovo o krestnom znamenii / Слово о крестном знамении] from the Menaion Reader [Chet'i Minei / Четьи Минеи].
Part #11 – 2 f. (f. 38-39 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the essay of Gregory of Nyssa on heretics.
Part #12 – 2 f. (f. 40-41 according to consecutive numbering); Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the Kormchaia Book [Book of the Pilot, Кормчая] about the prohibition of communication with heretics.
Decoration of the manuscript: headings and initials in all parts are painted with red and brown inks. Readers’ notes. Cover: 2nd half of the 20th century, cardboard, inscription – “On repentance, feast days, dreams and other things” [о покаянии, праздниках, сновидении и прочем]. 1st half of the 20th century.
12 unsewn folios and notebooks collected under one cover. Part #1 - 8º (176 х 109); Part #2 - 8º (178 х 110); Part #3 - 8º (177 х 108); Part #4 – 8º (180 х 114); Part #5 – 8º (184 х 112); Part #6 – 8º (185 х 113); Part #7 – 8º (179 х 110); Part #8 – 8º (176 х 110); Part #9 – 8º (116 х 103); Part #10 – 8º (170 х 109); Part #11 – 8º (178 х 110); Part #12 – 8º (178 х 109); 41 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.
