Manuscript, Russian.

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Povest' Ammonniia Mnikha o ubienii sviatykh otets v Sinai i Raithou [Report by Ammonius the Monk on the Slaughter of the Fathers of Sinai and Rhaithou]. Russian, early nineteenth century
ink on paper

Folio (329 x 197mm.), Church Slavonic manuscript in the Byzantine style, 47 pages, one full-page illustration showing the author expounding, 33 smaller illustrations of scenes from the lives of Saints, including Saint Sebastian, the last showing the author at work, all coloured by hand and with flecked dull-gold grounds, antique calf over wooden boards with metal catches, a few leaves strengthened in margins, binding slightly worn, lacks clasps

Provenance

Robert Schuman, German-French statesman instrumental in the founding of the European Union and NATO.