Arkhangelsk Gospel

The Archangelsk Gospel (Russian: Архангельское Евангелие) is a lectionary written in Old Church Slavonic dated to 1092.

The manuscript is in satisfactory condition - the ink and vermilion has crumbled in places, but the parchment does not have signs of contamination or moisture.

[3] In early December 1876 the manuscript was brought to Moscow by a peasant from Arkhangelsk region and was acquired by a Rumyantsev Museum trustee, merchant, old believer S. T. Bolshakov.

[4] They concluded that it was written in 1192 because of the date of the scribe ending work on the manuscript ( Cyrillic numerals "from the creation of the world" - ҂ ЅѰ).

[5][6] The facsimile edition reproduces a natural colour of the manuscript (parchment, ink, pictures, and holes created by insects).

Fifty-four pages have various defects: rough fields which have been not sewn up or have unfilled holes, the filed parts of the leaves.

Separately last leaf of the manuscript is sewn to the book block with the text-palimpsest (presumably 12th century), written on the old washed off text.

[11] The manuscript was written by two scribes (according to the colophon, their names were — Michka and presbyter Peter), and also the third scribe (Jakim or Akim), who is responsible for the 175—177 sheets (with Sunday Gospel lessons) and the fourth, which name is unknown — who wrote only leaf 178 (Gospel lessons at date of Archangel Michael).

In the end written the fourth scribe writing existed a certain text which at the moment of detection of the manuscript to disassemble it was inconvenient.