Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Old Believer personal anthology of edificatory literature.

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 2028
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970193923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1125130685
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3319s856

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Church Slavic

Origin

Date

between 1850 and 1899

Place

Prichudie, Estonia

Summary

Personal compilation of lives of saints (including Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker, Saint Catherine, Saint Iuliania, and Saint Anastasia), readings from Church fathers such as John Chrysostom, and other paraliturgical texts (Julia Verkholantsev, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Paper: Embossed stamps, f. 90-94, lower left recto; f. 166, upper left recto
   

Extent

215 leaves : 340 x 215 (240-270 x 150-160) mm bound to 350 x 230 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, [1-148], lower right recto, remaining leaves unfoliated.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century leather, blind-ruled; remnants of two pairs of clasps on the fore-edge; spine damaged; printed pastedowns.

Layout

Written in 22-25 long lines; ruled in drypoint (visible f. 107r, 124r).

Provenance

• Sold by Mart Neilinn (eBay), 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Old Believers--Estonia

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Church Slavic--19th century

Keywords

• Private devotional text
• Saint's Life
• 19th century
• Paper
• Devotion

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Old Believer personal anthology of edificatory literature]