Also, the Great Menaion Reader includes the so-called kormchiye knigi (books of guidelines, a.k.a.
The Great Menaion Reader was compiled in the 1530s-1540s under the supervision of Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow.
The Great Menaion Reader contains over 27,000 large-size pages copied by hand and artistically decorated.
The Great Menaion Reader was revised and expanded by Dimitry of Rostov in the early 18th century.
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