$5,400
Handwritten and handcolored. With exquisite decorations and texts of religious songs. 263 leafs, including 10 pages with elaborate handpainted decorations. 360 x 225 mm. The first handcolored page inscribed,"Tvoreniya prepodobnogo ottsa nashego Ioanna Damaskina" [Creation of our Father John of Damascus]. The front endpaper bears a bookstamp from the Georgievsky Starobriacheskaia obschchina v gorode Egor'evske [Georgievsky Old Believers Community in Yegorievsk], a handwritten number N. 100, and the following inscription in pencil: "Siia kniga Ermosy prinadlezhit Egor'evskomy Kuptsu Eremeiu Dimitrievichu Kniazevu. Napisana v derevne Zapolitsy. Zaplocheno serebrom dvadtsat' vosem' rublei 1881 godu, noiabria, 13go dnia [This book Ermosy belongs to the Yegorevsky merchant Eremei Dmitrievich Kniazev. It was wrtitten in the Village of Zapolitsy. Paid for in the amount of 28 Silver Rubles, on the 13th Day of November, 1881.].
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2013-05-18
