AUTHOR: ARCHBISHOP OF CAESAREA, ANDREW

LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN

DATE: 1800

PAGE #: 466

REPRODUCTION DIMENSIONS: 11.75 X 8.75 IN

HISTORY/DESCRIPTION: THIS MANUSCRIPT WAS MADE AROUND 1800 BY THE “OLD BELIEVERS,” A GROUP OF RUSSIAN CHRISTIANS WHO DISSENTED FROM THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND WERE SUBSEQUENTLY PERSECUTED AND EXCOMMUNICATED. BECAUSE THEIR BOOKS WERE OFTEN CONFISCATED AND THEY WERE OFTEN FORBIDDEN TO USE PRINTING PRESSES, THEY CONTINUED TO WRITE IMPORTANT WORKS, SUCH AS THIS ONE, BY HAND. THE MANUSCRIPT CONTAINS THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK OF REVELATION ALONG WITH A PATRISTIC COMMENTARY, WHICH IS ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF SEVENTY ONE FULL PAGE MINIATURES, THREE ORNAMENTED HEADPIECES AND DECORATED INITIALS THROUGHOUT.

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