The Skit Commemoration Book with Menologium (fragment) // Скитской синодик и Месяцесловом (фрагмент) // Skitskoi sinodik i Mesiatseslovom (fragment) [1920s]

Paper: Russian machine-made paper with stamps of the Manufacture of А. Sumkin the merchant’s heirs, Vologda Governance, had been made in 1869, 1909 [ref.: Клепиков С.А. Филиграни и штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XVII-XX вв. М., 1959. № 202]; 2nd stamp is unidentified (under impression print, f.3). Writing style: half-uncial script. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s). Decoration: headings with red inks. The manuscript contains instructions for Saint of the Day from 24 February to 24 May and a list of died Skitniks (58 names); f. 1 has the year of the death of one Skitnik– 1920 (7428). Without a cover. Folios are compiled into a notebook and not sewn together. 8° (manuscript size – 177 mm х 111 mm); 8 f; Condition: satisfactory. The manuscript was made in the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.