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Book “Book of Praise or Psalter”, inv. no. КБ-6079: cover or title page
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Book “Book of Praise or Psalter”, inv. no. КБ-6079: cover or title page
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Books and booklets

Book of Praise or Psalter

Inv. no. КБ-6079 · Books and booklets

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities

Printed in 1823. Full description

Date
19th century
Material
Paper, cardboard
Technique
Printing
Dimensions
23 × 19 cm

Photo: M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum · CC BY 4.0

Book pages

188 pages. High-resolution scans you can zoom into.

Description

Printed in 1823.

Printed in a single color. The pagination is numeric, at the bottom left of the pages. On the front flyleaf is a provenance record in the form of handwritten texts: "I. Mikhailov" (crossed out), "Nikolai Sobolev" (crossed out), "Ivan Pokrovsky" (crossed out), "Ivan Aleksandrov," "Nik. Sobolev" (crossed out), "Ivan Aleksandrov, pupil of the 3rd class of the seminary. 1846, September 4."

The book's cover is of stiff cardboard, covered with paper bearing an abstract pattern in black and lilac tones.

It entered the museum's holdings in 1972.

Record

Inventory number
КБ-6079
Title
Book of Praise or Psalter
Collection group
Books and booklets
Date
19th century
Material
Paper, cardboard
Technique
Printing
Dimensions
23 × 19 cm
Digitisation
Project “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities”, 2026
Tradition
Orthodoxy
Pages
188

Updated 15 Oct 2026

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