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Book “Collection of Church Chants. Text and notes”, inv. no. КБ-6627: cover or title page
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Collection of Church Chants. Text and notes

Inv. no. КБ-6627 · Books and booklets

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities

Created approximately in the 19th century. The manuscript book is written in two colors (red and black), and contains text in Church Slavonic and musical notation. It is decorated with running heads and initials; letter foliation appears in the lower right corner of the page. Full description

Date
19th century
Material
Paper, wood, leather, metal
Technique
Handwriting, embossing
Dimensions
37 × 23 cm

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

Book pages

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

Description

Created approximately in the 19th century. The manuscript book is written in two colors (red and black), and contains text in Church Slavonic and musical notation. It is decorated with running heads and initials; letter foliation appears in the lower right corner of the page. The cover is wooden, bound in dark-brown leather. The spine is of light-brown leather, the flyleaf turquoise. On the edges are two shaped clasps of leather and metal.

The book belonged to the pre-war (pre-1941) part of the collection of the H. S. Skovoroda Historical Museum.

Record

Inventory number
КБ-6627
Title
Collection of Church Chants. Text and notes
Collection group
Books and booklets
Date
19th century
Material
Paper, wood, leather, metal
Technique
Handwriting, embossing
Dimensions
37 × 23 cm
Digitisation
Project “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities”, 2026
Tradition
Orthodoxy
Pages
810

Updated 15 Oct 2026

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