Ubět dukhovnyĭ, vo ūtverzh[d]enīe bl[a]gochestivykh li︠u︡deĭ, vo ūvěrenīe zhe i ōbrashtenīe k pokaęnīi︠u︡ōt prelesti raskolʹnikōv s[vę]tyę t︠s︡[e]rkvī
By: Īōakīma, Patrīarkha moskovskagō i vseę rōssīi
Contributors: Menges, Karl Heinrich, 1908-1999, former owner
Publisher: x
Published: 1683
Place of publication: V t︠s︡[a]r[s]tvūi︠u︡shte velikogradě Moskvě
Language: rus
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Doctrines; Sources; Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ; Religious Dissenters; Church history; Sign of the Cross; Old Believers; Orthodox Eastern Church; Worship
Other titles: Obet dukhovnyĭ, vo utverzhdenie blagochestivykh li︠u︡deĭ; Oubet dukhovnyĭ
Notes: A defense of the Russian Church's Old Moscovite tradition. Ioakim, patriarch from 1674 to 1690, favored the Greek direction of the Church and opposed the Old Believers and other Church reformers or schisms.

Author, title and date of publication given within text on both sides of first preliminary leaf.

Signatures: pi² [Church Slavic A-Ld]⁸ [i.e. 1-34⁸].

Text printed on laid paper in Church Slavic characters in Cyrillic uncial style, single column, 15 lines, with catchwords and occasional marginalia. Headings, some initials, some text, and illustrations (depicting the cross and methods of making the sign of the cross) are printed in red. Woodcut head-pieces begin initial sections of main text.

This copy bound in contemporary brown leather over wooden boards; elaborate tooling and stamping both front and back. Traces of original brass-and-leather clasps present. Ink inscriptions on pastedowns include a plea for the Lord's mercy. Belonged to Professor and Mrs. Karl H. Menges.

In Russian Church Slavic. Leaves are numbered in upper right corners with Church Slavic (Cyrillic) characters.