A complete copy of this magnificent production of high-level Russian art history, here focusing on manuscript decorations over centuries and many various regions, with many superb examples, from Central Europe, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Central Asia etc.
SIMEON, Novyi Bogoslov [SYMEON, the New Theologian]
Prepodobnogo ottsa nashego Simeona Novago Bogoslova...slovesa zelo polezna [Practical Words]
Lovely manuscript of 'Words' still unpublished at the time. In unusually fresh condition on fine blue paper and presented to a Russian business woman.
BABKIN K., M. NEKRASOV, A. ALEKSANDROV, V. SVETLISHIN and others
Nash Vestnik. Literaturno-sportivnyi zhurnal Kruzhka Fizicheskogo Razvitiia KFR [Our Newsletter. Literary and Sports Magazine of the Physical Development Club]
Exceptional manuscript describing sporting and other recreative activities in a small town of Russia immediately after the Civil War. A very entertaining read, mixing much information with humour and many illustrations.
Striking official documents in manuscript, related to the Rynkiewicz family and its nobility status, in Polish and Russian with fresh watercolour illustrations. A fine item of heraldry, very well preserved its red-morocco binding and large brass seal: rare so.
[ROMANOV, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich] – TSVETKOV M. and Vasilii KITAEV (artist)
Muzykalnyia stsenki. Popuri [Musical Sketches. Potpourri]
An interesting compilation of various international and Russian music, all manuscript, with a lovely watercolour title page and all kept in a refined master binding: a very attractive imperial portfolio made for the Grand Duke. Very rare.
Unusual extensive manuscript travel account of a German going through Russia and recording his many observations - richly illustrated with a variety of added material. Only partly published in contemporary newspapers.
A lovely manuscript booklet finely bound, showing all important events of Russia's history up to 1784 - very unusual, attractive and informative, possibly connected to Tsar Nicholas I.
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Appealing small-format religious manuscript, probably written by Russian women scribes, while they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding, with fresh colours and gilt decorations.
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Appealing small-format religious manuscript, most probably written by Russian women scribes, before they were banned from doing it. In contemporary binding and with near-contemporary annotations.
The Afterllife and its wonders in original watercolours: a wealthy visual catalogue for Russian Old Believers, remarkable for the large quantity of full-page images - one on every leaf.
Beautiful, richly illustrated Old-Believer manuscript, with an unusual style and unusual pinholes in the images. A fine item in its first binding.
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[OLD BELIEVERS] – MIATELKOV, Fedor Petrovich
Sviattsy [Religious Almanac]
Complete with bold miniatures and ornaments: a fine Old-Believer manuscript, signed by the scribe and artist. With contemporary provenance.
TUROVEROV, Nikolai Nikolaevich, Aleksei ACHAIR, Pavel GUSEV and others
Kruzhok Literaturov Kazakov [Circle of Cossack Writers]: an Archive
Fine group of letters and other documents relating to the émigré literary activity before and during WWII - from Kharbin to Paris and its surroundings.
[OLD BELIEVERS] – BLINOV, Ivan Gavrilovich (scribe)
Zhitie Feodora Studita [The Life of Feodor Studit]
Beautiful illuminated manuscript produced by one of the best scribes of the early 20th-century Russia; very fresh and in its original binding.
A luxury production of the Old Believers' printing press, with gold highlights, very much imitating their richly illustrated manuscripts.
Very rare manuscript collection of theological and philosophical texts, including some forbidden by Catherine the Great's government in the 1780s. Very well preserved in its contemporary binding. With a poem authored most likely by the compiler of the manuscript and dedicated to the opening of the bronze horseman, the celebrated monument to Peter the Great inaugurated by Catherine in St. Petersburg.
A lovely example of a tiny manuscript Menologium in Church Slavonic, a liturgical calendar with hymns celebrating the saints for each month of the year. In attractive, fresh condition, with the ornaments in bright colours, bound in its first binding of red morocco over wooden boards. A great example of an Old Believers' miniature production.