Content:
Contains: (ff. 1r-v) Astrological advice for daily (rural) life,
information about several cycles. - (f. 2r-v) Biblical and
historical information about chronology (christening of Bulgarians
in 869, of Russians in 989, announcement of the end of the world in
1500). - (f. 3v) Counting system. - (f. 4r-v) The Lord's Prayer
(Matthew 6:9-13), Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. - (f. 4v) Hail
Mary (Luke 1:28,42) without the final request for intercession of
the Latin version.. - (f. 5r) Zodiac circle. - (ff. 5r-6v) Calendar
of saints (table, with vertically: months, horizontally: days,
diagonally: saints). - (f. 6v) Lunar circle with moon phases. -
(ff. 7r-143v) Psalms. - (ff. 143v-156r) Nine Canticles: The First
Song of Moses: Exodus 15 (144r-145r); The Second Song of Moses:
Deuteronomy 32 (145v-148r); The Prayer of Anna: 1 Samuel 2
(148v-149v); The Prayer of Habakkuk: Habbakuk 3 (149v-151r); The
Prayer of Isaiah: Isaiah 26 (151r-152r); The Prayer of Jonah: Jonah
2 (152r-v); The Prayer of the Three Holy Children: Daniel 3
(152v-154v); The Song of the Three Holy Children: Daniel 3
(154v-155v); The Song of the Theotokos or Magnificat: Luke 1
(155v-156r). - (ff. 159v-160v, 161v-166v) letter and deed of the
grand prince Vasily III (1479-1533) about a commercial treaty
between the city of Novgorod and 70 Hanseatic states, dated 7022 (=
1514 BC). - Empty: ff. 3r, 156v-159r, 161r. Note:
Transferred from the Oriental manuscripts in 1876. Former
shelfmark: Or. 267.
ff. 5-6 are parchment.
Script: Four hands: ff. 1r-13v (cyrillic semi-uncial), 14r-156r
(cyrillic semi-uncial), 159v-160v (cyrillic cursive), 161v-166v
(cyrillic semi-uncial and cyrillic cursive).
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Leather (brown, blind-tooled)
over pasteboard.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Molhuysen 1910):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:2040420
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
16th century
