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122 - [RUSSIA – OLD BELIEVERS]. THE SHIELD OF FAITH.
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[RUSSIA – OLD BELIEVERS]. THE SHIELD OF FAITH. PART FIVE. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST. [THE SHIELD OF FAITH. Part Five: Questions and Answers about the Antichrist]. Moscow, Christian Press of the Transfiguration Hospice [Preobrazhenskoe], 7420 [1912]. Quarto, brown calfskin on wooden boards, covers decorated with fillet borders and blind-stamped scrolls, flat-ribbed spine with blind-stamped decoration, title blind-stamped ‘ЩИТЪ ВѢРЫ О / АНТИХРИСТѢ’ [The Shield of Faith against the Antichrist], two clasps with brown leather tabs and scalloped metal fittings, decorated with fleurons and scrolls in relief (antique binding); (3) ff., 245 ff., (1) p. of colophon. Paper slightly browned, foxing, stains and handwritten annotations in Cyrillic, some scuffing and wear to the binding, inner hinges reinforced with gauze. FIRST PRINTED EDITION of this part, as indicated by the ‘printed’ notice. It was based on a manuscript from the Pomor tradition of the ‘Old Believers’, that is to say, Russian Orthodox Christians who remained faithful to the Russian rites predating Patriarch Nikon’s reforms, particularly from 1653 onwards. Published separately, this fifth part of the ‘Shield of Faith’ is devoted to the Antichrist and forms part of the theological and polemical literature of the ‘Old Believers’. The text is in Church Slavonic, printed in old Cyrillic type, in red and black, with ornamental headpieces, initials and footpieces. The copy is preserved in a traditional binding on wooden boards, possibly a rebinding in an old cover. ¶ N. V. Silvestrova, ‘A Study of the Collections of Religious Literature at the Kozmodemiansk Museum’, pp. 57–58.
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