Incipit: O ezhe kako vo svi︠a︡tykhʺ knigakhʺ kaęzhdo poslovit︠s︡a pisati i glagolati....
Semi-uncial script.
Watermarks: postman on horse (Geraklitov, 1963, #1089 (1647)); jester with pigtail and five bells on his collar (Dianova, 1980, # 302 (1647); Geraklitov, 1963, #1187 (1648-49)
Binding: 17th-century boards in stamped leather, restored, 19th century.
Title derived from spine.
Similar 17th-century copy found in the Rumʹiantsev Museum Collection, Russian State Library, Moscow, # 1. (See A. Vostokov, Opisanie russkikh i slovenskikh rukopiseĭ Rumi︠a︡nt︠s︡evskogo Muzeuma, St. Petersburg, 1842, pp. 1-3.)
Russian Church Slavic.