Miscellany in three parts. Part I taken from a printed work (this section not microfilmed). Includes heading on leaf Ia, "life of our venerable father and bearer of our Lord's mission Sergius Radonezh the mircle worker, a shortened collection compiled ... by archbishop Platōn". 2nd edition, Moscow, January 1797. Part II (leaves 1-39), manuscript dated by watermarks to the end of the 18th cent. Russian Church Slavonic language, in Cyrillic semi-uncials. Excerpts from ascetic writings . Includes 5 homilies by Tisavros; brother Isaiia, Nikita Studite; homily from a sketae paterikon; Ephraem of Syria; Isaiia; from the paterikon, Father Nil; interpretation of "the house is the body, the house of the governing soul", etc.
