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[SLAVONIC.] Collection of Prayers and religious Quotations, in Slavonic. Russia: 1869.
135 x 85 mm. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 44 leaves, written in black and red. (Some minor stains, some inner margins strengthened). Contemporary black blindstamped calf, the upper cover with a roundel of a lion fighting a unicorn with Russian inscription 'Thus do body and soul fight against each other as two wild beasts', within scallop border, in chemise and slip-case.
A collection of personal thoughts and prayers opening with the Trebnik of Patriarch Iosafat. On the penultimate page the last paragraph reads 'I am sending you instead of prayers this little book ... ' ending with the abbreviated name 'Gr. I. Evfr.' (possibly for Grigorii Ivanovich Evrasov) dated 1869
135 x 85 mm. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 44 leaves, written in black and red. (Some minor stains, some inner margins strengthened). Contemporary black blindstamped calf, the upper cover with a roundel of a lion fighting a unicorn with Russian inscription 'Thus do body and soul fight against each other as two wild beasts', within scallop border, in chemise and slip-case.
A collection of personal thoughts and prayers opening with the Trebnik of Patriarch Iosafat. On the penultimate page the last paragraph reads 'I am sending you instead of prayers this little book ... ' ending with the abbreviated name 'Gr. I. Evfr.' (possibly for Grigorii Ivanovich Evrasov) dated 1869