Accession number:
MS M.704
Title:
[Six sermons].
Created:
Russia, between 1833 and 1866.
Binding:
19th-century Russian light brown morocco over wood; elaborately gilt-stamped; in center panel, framed in an oval, is a view of Jerusalem with Golgatha and the Cross; cartouches above and below with the words in uncials: KNIGA GDNYA; within the oval is the inscription: Czar of Glory / Jesus son of Christ / the place of Execution; elaborately gauffered and gilt edges; clasps and metal edge pieces.
Credit:
Gift; Belle da Costa Greene; 1926.
Description:
113 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 204 x 172 mm
Provenance:
Written and decorated for Alexander Petrovich Protchisoff (inscription on fol. 113); Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes:
Ms. sermons; written and decorated in Russia in the mid 19th century.
Decoration: 6 ornamental headpieces and one ornamental full-page ex libris; bordered by a black stringbean design.
Script:
Cyrillic script
Language:
Church Slavic
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