Библія, сирѣчь книги Ветхаго и Новаго Завѣта по языку славенску
Subtitle: ot evreĭska v ellinskīĭ i͡azyk semidesi͡atmi i dvi͡ema bogomudrymi perevodniki prezhde voploshchenīi͡a Gospoda Boga i Spasa nashego Iususa Khrista ...
Publisher: Pechatnyĭ dvor
Published: 1663
Place of publication: Moscow
Language: chu
Number of pages: 516
Other titles: Biblīi͡a, siri͡echʹ knigi Vetkhago i Novago Zavi͡eta po i͡azyku slavensku; Biblii͡a sirechʹ, Knigi Vetkhogo i Novogo Zaveta; Biblīę siri͡echʹ, Knigi Vetkhago i Novago Zavi͡eta
Work titles: Bible Church Slavic 1663
Notes: The second Bible in Church Slavonic and, the first Bible printed in Russia; its predecessor, the Ostrog Bible of 1581, printed in Poland.

Leaves printed on both sides. Text within borders of ornaments. Some pages printed in red and black. Woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials. Printed marginal notes.

Darlow & Moule, 8371

Clair. History of European printing, p. 252

Undolʹskiĭ, V. Ocherk slavi͡ano-russkoĭ biblīografīĭ, 783

Zernova, A.S. Knigi kirillovskoĭ pechati, izdannye ve Moskve v XVI-XVII vekakh, 306

Church Slavic; Church Slavic (Old Church Slavonic) characters.

Contemporary ms. notes in Russian at foot of some pages; stamp: Biblioteka V. G. Druzhinina.

T.p. and added t.p. damaged, with some loss of image; many leaves damaged and repaired, without loss of text; last 9 leaves damaged and repaired, with some loss of text, final leaf duplicated in facsimile.

Bound in 18th-century tree calf, with marbled-paper boards; spine and covers gilt.