[End of 19th cent.] 220 leaves. 36x24 cm. Manuscript. The title page and frontispiece is decorated in colors. Every chapter starts with illuminated headpiece and initial. Contemporary red morocco with raised bands and gilt and blind stamping. One of two claps preserved. The covers are slightly rubbed. Otherwise very good..... More
![ILLUMINATED PASSION PASSIONATE] Strasti Khristovi [i.e. Passion Passionate with additional texts](/pictures/thumb/423.jpg?v=1519816891)
[Nizhny Novgorod], 1869. 33, [9], [4], 26 leaves. 40 illustrations. 50x33,5 cm. 40 colour miniatures (mostly full-page), headpieces and endings as well as other occasional decorations. Full vellum binding. Some pages are detached but generally in a good condition. Outstanding example of Old Believers manuscript tradition. Probably executed specially..... More
![KEY BOOK OF OLD BELIEVERS] Pomorian Answers](/pictures/thumb/18.jpg?v=1439496642)
Moscow: Khristianskaya tipografiya pri Preobrazhenskom bogadelnom dome, 1911. [Pomorskiye otvety pustynnozhitelei na voprosy ieromonakha Neofita] 7, 412 pp.: ill.; 36x23 cm. 4to. Contemporary leather binding. Numerous chromolitographic initials, vignettes, miniature illustrations. Full page colorful frontispiece showing Denisov next to the ornamented title page. Toned side edge. A very good..... More
![MANUSCRIPT FABLE] Povest o tsaritse i l’vitse [i.e. The Story of the Tsarina and Lioness](/pictures/thumb/422.jpg?v=1519816481)
[1840s]. Manuscript with 39 full-page miniatures. 4to. Contemporary cardboard binding with strings. Very good condition. Minor soiling of the pages, otherwise good. The story was created in Russia in 1690s, based on the Polish medieval novel about Otton and Olond. The story of lioness stealing one of tsarina’s children..... More
![OLD BELIEVERS’ CHANTS] Oktay](/pictures/thumb/250.jpg?v=1490788558)
[Second half of 19th cent.] 200 leaves. 36x24 cm. Manuscript. The title page and frontispiece is decorated in gold, blue and green colors. Every chapter starts with illuminated headpiece and initial. Contemporary red morocco with raised bands and gilt and blind stamping. The covers are slightly deformed. Otherwise very good..... More
![RUSSIAN MORMONS] Pokhozhdeniya i strady Kondratiya Selivanova [i.e. The Travels and Sufferings of...](/pictures/thumb/472.jpg?v=1528815195)
Manuscript. [N.p.], 1863. 100 pp. 21x17 cm. Contemporary half leather. Near ne. Minor soiling of the pages. The book was called ‘The Russian Book of Mormon’ as well as ‘Skoptsy Gospel’. This is the main text of the sect of ’Skoptsy’ (the name comes from Russian ‘oskoplyat’ - to..... More