Новый Завѥт
Subtitle: sī estʺ, Eẏ[ange]lie, ili, Bl[a]govestvovanie G[ospo]da Sp[a]sa nashego Ii[u]sa Khr[is]ta ...
Publisher: Troit͡sko-Ilʹinskiĭ Monastyrʹ
Published: 1717
Place of publication: Chernihiv, Ukraine
Language: chu
Number of pages: 1096
Subjects: Pictorial works; Apocalypse in art; Early works to 1800; Bible
Other titles: Novȳĭ Zavi͡et; Novyĭ zavet; Novyĭ zavet
Work titles: Bible New Testament Church Slavic 1717
Notes: Signatures: ;⁴ ?⁴ 2?1 A-3Ě⁴ [=114] 3I͡U² 3I͡A-4B⁴ [=10]; ²pi1 A-I⁴ [=10].

Character used to sign 1st preliminary gathering resembles a semicolon; character used for 2nd preliminary gathering and final preliminary leaf resembles a question mark.

Title printed in red and black, with historiated woodcut border. Includes full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials. Leaf 2L3 printed in red and black, with historiated initial printed in red. Final section (²A-I⁴), a liturgical calendar, printed in red and black.

Sopikov, V. S. Opyt rossīĭskoĭ bibliografii. 2nd ed., volume 1, 715

Sopikov, V. S.  Opyt rossīĭskoĭ bibliografii. 2nd ed., volume 1, 715

Signature on t.p.: Ja[s?]: Hen[?]ith; signature on front free endpaper: Elizabeth Hen[?]ith; inscription on front free endpaper: Peterburg ye 22 July 172[2?]. this book was made me a present of by [???????] Superiour of Kalaizensky monastery upon ye River Volga in Russia; inscription on front free endpaper: Ce livre est le Nouveau Testament en caracteres & langue Sclavone. Je l'ai acheté a Philadelphie dans la province de Pensylvanie en Amerique, le 8e Janvier 1766. J'en ay payé 5 shellings de la monnoye courante du pays & un shelling de plus pour fair mettre de nouveaux crochets il provenoit de l'Encan d'un officier d'Artillerie dans l'Armée Britannique nommé Ward [signed] Du Simitiere de Geneve; inscription on front free endaper: Je prens la liberté d'offrir ce livre a la Biblioteque des Colleges de Cambridge dans la nouvelle angleterre ... [signed] Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere de Geneve, Philadelphie Septembre 1768.

Bound in contemporary dark brown leather (sheep?) over wooden boards; very worn; spine partially worn away; covers panel-stamped, with central medallion of Christ, and 4 other holy figures at the corners, within a border; front cover decorated in gilt; all edges gilt, with stamped decoration; remains of fore-edge clasps; in CMI.