14 unsewn folios and notebooks, compiled under one cover. Several parts have Cyrillic numeric pagination made by scribers and a composer.
Part #1 - 2 f. (f. 1-2, sequential numbering). Paper: school notebook. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from essays of Isaac of Nineveh on asceticism and monasticism.
Part #2 - 8 f. (f. 3-10, sequential numbering). Paper: school notebook and a ledger. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from the historical essay Cell Chronicle [ Летописец келейный] of a Russian Church writer, Dimitry the Metropolitan of Rostov (1651-1708).
Part #3 - 6 f. (f. 11-16, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains a fragment of the Tsvetnik of Dorotheus the hieromonk, the Old Russian literature heritage of the early 17th century providing a guide to the monastic life.
Part #4 - 14 f. (f. 17-30, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from Mirror of Theology [Zertsalo bohosloviia // Зерцало богословия] of Kyrylo Stavrovetsky-Tranquillon, Orthodox theologian (1st half of the 17th century).
Part #5 - 2 f. (f. 31-32, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains a copy of the article about the persecution of the Old Believers by authorities published in the newspaper Golos [Voice / Голос] in 1870. (Vol. 280).
Part #6 - 22 f. (f. 33-54, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from essays of Athanasius of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, and John Chrysostom, and Cell Chronicle [Letopisets keleinyi / Летописец келейный] of Dimitry the Metropolitan of Rostov.
Part #7 - 14 f. (f.55-68, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper with a stamp (the inscription “Писчая бумага” [Writing-paper] under a crown; Клепиков С.А. Штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XIX-XX вв. Дополнение к таблице, опубликованной в 1956 г.) // Археографический ежегодник за 1966 г. М., 1968. № 112). Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains historical and literary works of the Times of the Troubles (исторические и литературные произведения эпохи Смутного времени).
Part #8 - 10 f. (f.69-78, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains extracts from Lives of the Saints and homilies from Patericon, the Prolog, the “Cheti-Minei” [Monthly Readings // Четьи-Минеи] including some that were written by Dimitry the Metropolitanof Rostov.
Part #9 - 16 f. (f.79-94, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper with a stamp (the inscription “Писчая бумага” [Writing-paper] under a crown; Клепиков С.А. Штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XIX-XX вв. Дополнение к таблице, опубликованной в 1956 г.) // Археографический ежегодник за 1966 г. М., 1968. № 112). Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains apocrypha on which wood Jesus’ cross was made, apocrypha on Cain, essays of Athanasius of Alexandria, Catechism, the Lives of Pope Sylvester I and Hilarion of Moglena.
Part #10 - 8 f. (f.95-101, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains a fragment from Pomorian Answers [Поморские ответы] - one of the main apologetic works of Russian Old Believers.
Part #11 - 30 f. (f.103-132, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels and a ledger. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains the Life of Theodora of Alexandria.
Part #12 - 8 f. (f.133-140, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels and a ledger. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains an essay The Beginning of the Indiction coincided in an Old Russian tradition with the new church year (1 September).
Part #13 - 18 f. (f.141-158, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made with a stamp (under impression print, unidentified, f. 145) and on a school notebook. Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains a fragment of the Tsvetnik of Dorotheus the hieromonk.
Part #14 - 44 f. (f.159-202, sequential numbering). Paper: Russian machine-made paper with a stamp (the inscription “Писчая бумага” [Writing-paper] under a crown; Клепиков С.А. Штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XIX-XX вв. Дополнение к таблице, опубликованной в 1956 г.) // Археографический ежегодник за 1966 г. М., 1968. № 112). Writing style: half-uncial script. The part contains fragments of the Lives of Christian and Orthodox Saints, extracts from the Prolog and Patericon.
Decoration of the manuscript: headings and initials in all parts are painted with colored inks. Cover: plywood, textile, paper. Readers’ notes, and a textile bookmark. 1st half of the 20th century.
14 Unsewn folios and notebooks, compiled under one cover. Part #1 - 4º (220 mm х 178 mm); Part #2 - 4º (220 mm х 180 mm); Part #3 - 4º (225 mm х 180 mm); Part #4 – 4º (221 mm х 178 mm); Part #5 – 4º (222 mm х 178 mm); Part #6 – 4º (220 mm х 180 mm); Part #7 – 4º (224 mm х 180 mm); Part #8 – 4º (225 mm х 180 mm); Part #9 – 4º (223 mm х 179 mm); Part #10 – 4º (225 mm х 180 mm); Part #11 – 4º (224 mm х 180 mm); Part #12 – 4º (226 mm х 181 mm); Part #13 – 4º (225 mm х 180 mm); Part #14 – 4º (223 mm х 179 mm).; 202 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.
