Paper: Russian machine-made paper without labels. Writing style: half-uncial script. The text was written by Mel'nikova Elena Osipovna, Mavra the nun (Мельникова Елена Осиповна, инокиня Мавра). She was a resident of the Tomsk-Chulim skit in 1961/62-1994. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s).
Decoration: headings and initials with red inks; schematic and added with the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] end-pieces – triangle-shaped objects (f. 7). The manuscript contains fragments from a historical essay of a Russian Church writer, Dimitry, Metropolitan of Rostov (1651-1708) and an Old Believer essay proclaiming the renunciation of the use of money in the “End Times” [последние времена]. Without a cover. 8° (manuscript size - 117 mm х 110 mm); 8 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.
