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(ORTHODOX RITE - SLAVONIC LITURGY - OLD BELIEVER TEXT). [ Old Slavonic Horologion ].
[Central Russia], [ca. 1850]. Sm. 4to, A-V(1-41)4, 2A-2P(1-17)4 2C1; A-L(1-13)4 (foliation is rather irregular): 230 (recte 232), 42 (recte 52)ff, printed in red and black, most quires printed on blue paper. Contemp. ecclesiastical deep brown blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, spine with raised bands, orig. clasps intact. Corners often finger-soiled, some leaves with neat marginal repairs, still a well-preseved copy, handsomely bound. ¶ Nineteenth-century Old Believer Horologion, 'reprinted in the Pochaev typography' (colophon). The Horologion (Slavonic: Chasoslov), or Book of Hours, provides the Acolouthia of the Daily Cycle of Services as used by the reader or cantor in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. As with the present copy, various editions of the Horologion are usually shorter; providing the fixed portions of the Daily Office in full, but with the other texts much more abbreviated. According to the colophon, our text was originally printed during the reign of Czar Alexis (1645-76), but the list of 63 publications issued during the reign of both Alexis and Patriarch Josif (Zernova 178-240) would not appear to contain a model for this re-issue. ¦ Founded in 1730 at one of the centers of the Basilian monastic order, the Pochaev Monastery Press supplied all of Galicia and Volhynia with theological literature. The deliberately false attribution to Pochaev (and other presses), was an effort to conceal the book's true origin in the clandestine printshops of the Old Believers, who for most of the 19th century were prohibited from publishing. ¦ The colophon reads in trasliteration: Siia s[va]taia i b[la]godukhnovennaia kniga, naritsaemaia Chasovnik, napechatana v ts[a]rstvuiushchem grade Moskve, v ts[a]rstvo blagochestivago tsaria Aleskseia Mikhailovicha, pri sviateishem Iosife Patriarkhe. Nyne zhe napechatasia v tipografii Pochaevskoi (This holy and spiritual book, called the Chasovnik [Horologion], was printed in the reigning city of Moscow, in the reign of the blessed tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich and the most holy Patriarch Iosif...). ¦ Printed in red and black on blue paper in a handsome ecclesiatical binding.
Offered for US$ 2000.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 5384.