LOT 72 72
OLD BELIEVERS ILLUMINATED RUSSIAN MANUSCRIPT SECOND HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
Handwritten and handcolored. In black and red ink. With exquisite painted decorations of vignettes and texts of religious songs. Containing 167 leafs of music with ornamental initials. Also 10 large illuminated headings and onamental initial letters. Contemporary blind stamp original binding with two clasps (repaired). Folio. 365 x 232 mm. Good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Private library stamp on the front endpaper of the \Staroobriadcheskii sviashchennik Ipatii Derkov-Trofimov\" (Old-Believers Priest Ipatii Derkov-Trofimov)"