[P︠s︡altirʹ].
[Ѱалти́рь].
"Small 4th (textblock: 210 x 165 mm. Binding: 215 x 175 x 80 mm). Bound in contemporary Russian calf (?) over wooden boards, catch on upper cover, portion of leather strap preserved, clasp lacking. Binding and text very worn (see the 53 images on our website) and partially defective, some pages...
| Uniform Title: | Bible. |
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | Church Slavic |
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| Summary: | "Small 4th (textblock: 210 x 165 mm. Binding: 215 x 175 x 80 mm). Bound in contemporary Russian calf (?) over wooden boards, catch on upper cover, portion of leather strap preserved, clasp lacking. Binding and text very worn (see the 53 images on our website) and partially defective, some pages loose, numerous crude repairs. Two binder blanks (front one fragmentary) + 285 ff. text. Although we counted the leaves, we have not collated the text.This Russian Manuscript Psalter is practically Medieval in construction, and is written mainly on BLUE PAPER ruled in plummet. We are grateful to Georgi Parpulov for his help in cataloging the manuscript, and for directing out attention to the watermark, which bears the arms of the city of Yaroslavl and is securely datable to 1818 (see SA Klepikov, "Filigrani i shtempeli," 1959, plate 25, Type 11). The Psalter contains a Preface and a Postface, both of which explain how the Psalms are to be recited in private, as a personal devotional observance. Written in Russian in the first half of the 19th-century, the manuscript contains: Psalms 1-151; Troparia (short hymns) to be recited after having read the Psalter to the end; Rule for recting the Psalter in private Troparia and prayers to be recited at each of the twenty kathismata of the Psalter, i.e. after Ps 8, Ps 6, etc. A reader's note, claiming that the manuscript was copied in 1232 AD"--Bookseller site. |
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloging agency and based on the reference made by the scriptor at the end of the last psalm: " [... after finishing the entire] P︠s︡altirʹ..." In Church Slavic language. Written in black and red ink on white and blue Russian paper. Bound in contemporary Russian calf leather over wooden boards. The manuscript psalms have inscriptions (marked in red) preceding the main text of each psalm. Some of the inscriptions refer to the canonical text of the Hebrew Bible (for example, Ps. 1 has [Psalm of David, not inscribed by a Jew] indicating that the psalm does not have the inscription 'Psalm of David' in the Hebrew Bible). Some of the inscriptions indicate the order of service. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Laughlin collection by The Cushing Library. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged, [483 (including 2 first damaged) pages]) ; 22 cm |