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[Life of St. Basil the Lesser].

Accession number
MS S.19
Object title
[Life of St. Basil the Lesser].
Display Date
ca. 1798-1810]
Created
[Russia, ca. 1798-1810]
Binding
19th-century stamped brown calf over heavy beveled boards, repaired, missing its 2 clasps.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
162 leaves (1 column, 14-16 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 200 x 165 mm.
Provenance
E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. saint's life; written and illuminated in Russia, ca. 1798-1810.
Decoration: 1 full-page geometrical frontispiece in watercolor, 109 full-page and 1 half-page figured drawings executed in black ink and watercolor.
Written on paper with a date watermark 1798 (see Z.V. Uchastkina, A History of Russian hand paper-mills and their Watermarks, Hilversum, 1962, no. 484).
Script
cyrillic
Language
Russian
Century
Classification