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Book “Book Collection Dedicated to Nicholas the Wonderworker”, inv. no. КБ-6636: cover or title page
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Book “Book Collection Dedicated to Nicholas the Wonderworker”, inv. no. КБ-6636: cover or title page
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Books and booklets

Book Collection Dedicated to Nicholas the Wonderworker

Inv. no. КБ-6636 · Books and booklets

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities

The edition was printed at the printing house of the Pochaiv Lavra in the mid-17th century. Second edition. Full description

Date
17th century
Material
Paper, cardboard, leather, metal
Technique
Printing, handwriting
Dimensions
20 × 15 × 6 cm

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

Book pages

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

Description

The edition was printed at the printing house of the Pochaiv Lavra in the mid-17th century. Second edition.

Printed in two colors (black and red) and by hand (previously lost pages restored in manuscript), the text in Church Slavonic, with running heads on the pages. At the beginning of the book its contents are set out. Foliation appears in the lower right corner, with signatures at the bottom center of the pages. The book's decoration is complemented by headpieces, tailpieces, and initials.

The book has a hard cover, with boards of stiff cardboard, covered in leather with a stamped diamond-mesh pattern; on the edges of the boards are clasps of metal and leather.

The book belonged to the collection of Kharkiv's pre-war (pre-1941) museums.

Record

Inventory number
КБ-6636
Title
Book Collection Dedicated to Nicholas the Wonderworker
Collection group
Books and booklets
Date
17th century
Material
Paper, cardboard, leather, metal
Technique
Printing, handwriting
Dimensions
20 × 15 × 6 cm
Digitisation
Project “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities”, 2026
Tradition
Orthodoxy
Pages
504

Updated 15 Oct 2026

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