Collection of Prayers and Religious Quotations, in Slavonic.
Russia: 1869.
Price: $2,250.00
About the item
Manuscript, with notes and capitals in red. 88 pp. 1 vols. 12mo (135 x 85 mm.). Contemporary black blindstamped calf, the upper cover with a roundel of a lion fighting a unicorn with Russian inscription “Thus do body and soul fight against each other as two wild beasts,” within scallop border, in marbled chemise and orange slip-case.
Item #230664
A collection of personal thoughts and prayers opening with the Trebnik of Patriarch Iosafat. On the penultimate page the last paragraph reads “I am sending you instead of prayers this little book ...” ending with the abbreviated name 'Gr. I. Evfr.' (possibly for Grigorii Ivanovich Evrasov) dated 1869.
