![ST BASIL THE GREAT — Manuscript titled Anfologion, sirich Tsvetoslov, ili Trifologion. [Anthologion, that is the Tsvetoslov or Trefologion ... compiled from the Holy Fathers of the Church ... This Trefologion was written by the hand of Elisei Lavrish of the Velmozhnoe Kniazhestvo ... in the City of Vilno]. Russia/Lithuania, late 16th century.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01568_0071_001(st_basil_the_great_manuscript_titled_anfologion_sirich_tsvetoslov_ili111321).jpg?w=1)
![ST BASIL THE GREAT — Manuscript titled Anfologion, sirich Tsvetoslov, ili Trifologion. [Anthologion, that is the Tsvetoslov or Trefologion ... compiled from the Holy Fathers of the Church ... This Trefologion was written by the hand of Elisei Lavrish of the Velmozhnoe Kniazhestvo ... in the City of Vilno]. Russia/Lithuania, late 16th century.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01568_0071_000(st_basil_the_great_manuscript_titled_anfologion_sirich_tsvetoslov_ili095004).jpg?w=1)
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ST BASIL THE GREAT — Manuscript titled Anfologion, sirich Tsvetoslov, ili Trifologion. [Anthologion, that is the Tsvetoslov or Trefologion ... compiled from the Holy Fathers of the Church ... This Trefologion was written by the hand of Elisei Lavrish of the Velmozhnoe Kniazhestvo ... in the City of Vilno]. Russia/Lithuania, late 16th century.
Manuscript on paper, in Church Slavonic, 290 x 183mm, in black and red in polu-ustav characters, with decorative head-piece to each month in pen and ink. Gathered mostly in eights, with contemporary pagination in Cyrillic alphabetic numerals, unnumbered pages 373a, 437a, 543a, 604a, 680a, 817a, some blank pages, pages 172, 534, 653, 685 and 687 omitted from pagination, blank leaf pp.619/20 included in pagination. (Lacking title and first two leaves, replaced with three leaves with manuscript transcription dated on title 1694, pp.288/89 similarly transcribed, half leaf inserted between pp.473/74 with Troparion for the birth of the Mother of God, ff.691-692 of later transcription of prayers for Sundays, some soiling and dampstaining throughout, some tears from use, some with loss, a few with later transcription, five decorative headpieces defective, upper margin trimmed with occasional loss of headline, imperfect at end finishing on page 1149). 18th-century calf, spine lettered in Polish (spine worn and wormed, some stiching weak). Provenance: H.P. Kraus Rare Books, New York -- Cornelius H. Hauck, Cincinnati (bookplate; sold Christie’s New York, 27-28 June 2006, lot 246).
A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPT: the compilation of the prayers recited on the feast days of the Orthodox Church and listed chronologically from the beginning of the canonical year in September. Slavonic manuscripts of this date are rare.
Manuscript on paper, in Church Slavonic, 290 x 183mm, in black and red in polu-ustav characters, with decorative head-piece to each month in pen and ink. Gathered mostly in eights, with contemporary pagination in Cyrillic alphabetic numerals, unnumbered pages 373a, 437a, 543a, 604a, 680a, 817a, some blank pages, pages 172, 534, 653, 685 and 687 omitted from pagination, blank leaf pp.619/20 included in pagination. (Lacking title and first two leaves, replaced with three leaves with manuscript transcription dated on title 1694, pp.288/89 similarly transcribed, half leaf inserted between pp.473/74 with Troparion for the birth of the Mother of God, ff.691-692 of later transcription of prayers for Sundays, some soiling and dampstaining throughout, some tears from use, some with loss, a few with later transcription, five decorative headpieces defective, upper margin trimmed with occasional loss of headline, imperfect at end finishing on page 1149). 18th-century calf, spine lettered in Polish (spine worn and wormed, some stiching weak). Provenance: H.P. Kraus Rare Books, New York -- Cornelius H. Hauck, Cincinnati (bookplate; sold Christie’s New York, 27-28 June 2006, lot 246).
A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SLAVONIC MANUSCRIPT: the compilation of the prayers recited on the feast days of the Orthodox Church and listed chronologically from the beginning of the canonical year in September. Slavonic manuscripts of this date are rare.
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