SMALL BOOK OF THE HOURS - CHASOVNIK - russian old believers, church old slavonic

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SMALL BOOK OF THE HOURS - CHASOVNIK - russian old believers, church old slavonic:
$65.00

Item description: \"SMALL BOOK OF THE HOURS\" or \"CHASOVNIK\" - church old slavonic book for Daily Services, modern reprint of edition of 1653. Pages 470, with 4 illustration and rich decorative viniettes

Originated:from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from thegoverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).

All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due tostrong religious restrictions.

Item story: I have received thisbook at fair in Yaroslavl-townwhere christians belonged toOld Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.

Measurements: 60 x 50 x 4 mm

Weigth: 0,1 kg

Condition: new, never used

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Item description in Russian: Часовник или молитвы на каждый час дня. Церковнославянский язык. Содеожит неизменяемые части соборной службы. Так же применяется в домашней молитве. Редкое староверческое нелегальное издание.Уникальный образец подпольного самиздата.Настоящая книги напечатана фундаменталистского беспоповского согласия - \"федосеевцами\". 1909 года, которая в свою очередь перепечатана слово в слово, буква в букву с дораскольного издания напечатанного при православном патриархе Иосифе в 1650 году. Не содержит в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Не имеет выходных данных типографии, штрих-кода, даты издания и других данных, так как староверами таковые числа считаются относящимися к миру Антихриста. Крепкий книжный блок, сшитый толстыми нитками, твердая обложка, покрытая дермантином. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава, обучения детей и взрослых Слову Божию, для домашней и соборной молитвы и спасения души.

An Explanation of the \"SMALL BOOK OF THE HOURS\" : The book of hours is the most common type of Service Book contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and psalms, often with appropriate decorations, for Christian devotion. Illumination or decoration is minimal in many examples, often restricted to decorated capital letters at the start of psalms and other prayers, but books made for wealthy patrons may be extremely lavish, with full-page miniatures.The typical book of hours is an abbreviated form of the breviary which contained the Divine Office recited in monasteries. It was developed for lay people who wished to incorporate elements of monasticism into their devotional life. Reciting the hours typically centered upon the reading of a number of psalms and other prayers. A typical book of hours contains:A Calendar of Church feasts
An excerpt from each of the four gospels
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The fifteen Psalms of Degrees
The seven Penitential Psalms
A Litany of Saints
An Office for the Dead
The Hours of the Cross
Various other prayes

About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of theAntichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in manyRussian regions, including North and Siberia.Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.

Group ofRussian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1900

Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: \"Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man\'s salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man\'s mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit.\"Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.

Russian Christian Orthodox FundamentalistsOld Believer nun with huge prayer book.

Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 1970.

Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our sale: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religiousitems in our sale are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.

About me: as the representative of thisRussian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in sales,antiques shops, church shops,flea markets, at private persons by purchase andby exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.

Charity: 10% of my income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.

Sorry: for bad English, whichis not my native language. I am a new seller here in , and as fair and responsible person I will try my best to give you a good service.

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