Old Believer miscellanyca. 1700-1750.Old Believer anthology of readings for the Church holidays, saints' lives, and polemical treatises with emphasis on eschatology and asceticism. Includes vitae of St. Basil the Younger, Euphrosyne of Alexandria, St. Febronia, St. Alexius; eschatological works of Palladius and Cyril of Alexandria; treatises on repentance, drunkenness, meekness, mourning, judgment, bearing pain and suffering, loving God, and abstaining from evil thoughts. Also includes tales on the martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria, the mercy of the Virgin Mary, and short excerpts on shaving.Bound in boards covered with stamped leather, spine restored. Fragments of two clasps.Leaves 1-114: Skazanie ō zhitii i ōt︠c︡hasti chi︠u︡desʺ prepodobnago Vasilīę Novago / napisano Grigorīemʺ mnikhomʺ ouchnikomʺ ego. Leaves 115-127: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a sentębrę vʺ 25 denʹ, zhitīe prepodobnyi︠a︡ matere nasheę Eufrosinīi aleksandrěĭskīę. -- Leaves 128-156v.: Vʺ nedeli︠u︡ męsopustnui︠u︡, prepodobnago ōt︠t︠︡s︡a nashegoPaladīę mnikha. Slovo o vtoromʺ prishestvīi Xristově i ō strashnom sudě / Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna. -- Leaves 157-159v.: Ezhe ne gněvatisę ni pamętozlobstvovati nikakogozhe. -- Leaves 161-181v.: Izhe vo svi︠a︡tykh ōt︠t︠s︡a nashego Kirila aleksandrīiskago arkhiepiskopa, Slovo v neděli︠u︡ męsopustnui︠u︡, vypisano is knigi Sobornika pechatnogo / Saint Cyril. -- Leaves 181-182v.: Vʺ toĭ zhe denʹ slovo Iōanna Zlatoustago ō pokaęnīi / Saint John Chrysostom.Leaves 184-186: Ō neizglagolannomʺ miloserdīi Bogoroditsy kʺ někoĭ t︠s︡erkovnit︠s︡e i o pokaęnīi. -- Leaves 187-224v. Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a iu︠l︡i︠a︡ vʺ 25 denʹ, zhitīe i stradanīe svi︠a︡tyęmnogostradalʹnyě prepodomnomuchenit︠s︡y Fevronīi. -- Leaves 225-249: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡anoębrę vʺ 24 denʹ, muchenīe svi︠a︡tyę velikomuchenit︠s︡y Ekateriny filosofit︠s︡y. -- Leaves 249-258v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a martavʺ 17 denʹ, zhitīe svi︠a︡tago pravednago Aleksěę cheloveka bozhīę. -- Leaves 259-274v.: I︠a︡ko podobaetʺ popechenie iměti ō sobornykh dělex i o sluzhbakhʺ, vʺ neĭ zhe kozhdo uchinenʺ bystʹ.Leaves 275-277v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a aprělę vʺ 7 denʹ, pouchenie kʺ t︠s︡aremʺ i kni︠azemʺi episkopomʺ i popomʺ i ko vsěmʺ khristianomʺ izhe ne oupivatisę. -- Leaves 278-278v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a maię vʺ 31 denʹ, slovo Ioanna Zlataustago o smirenīi / Saint John Chrysostom. -- Leaves 278v.-283v.: O polzě skorbei. -- Leaves 285-285v.: Vʺ toizhe denʹ slovo ot zhitię svętago Andreę i Epifanię. -- Leaves 286-289v.: Ō ezhe ne osuzhati nikogozhe inogo naipache svoi︠a︡ zrěti zlaę. -- Leaves 289v.-295: Ō ezhe terpěti vsę nakhodęshtai︠a︡ doblestně. -- Leaves 295-299v.: Ezhe vsegda kaętisę i plakati o sogrěshenikhʺsvoikh. -- Leaves 299v.-302v.: O ezhe ko edinomu Bogu iměti li︠u︡bovʹ. -- Leaves 303-318v.: Vypisano is knigi Kormʺchię.Purchased from Svetlana Aronov on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1997. 19th-century library stamp, illegible (leaf 318v.).Semi-uncial script, several scribes.Several full page illustrations (leaves 127v, 160, 160v, 186, 248v) with additional border decorations and outlines of frames throughout.Watermark: crest of the city of Amsterdam (Dianova, 1980, #173 (1697); #175 (1698)).text