Incipit: "Vespasianʺ vstupishe na prestolʺ rimskii︠a︡ imperii i zdelavshisʹ obladatelemʺ vselennyi︠a︡ prini︠a︡lʺ nepremennoe namerenie podvergnutʹ svoeĭ vlasti Iudeevʺ..."
Cursive script.
Includes six full-page illustrations at various stages of completion (leaves 1v., 3, 27v., 92, 162, 172) on paper dating from 1779-1838. Probably executed after the writing of the manuscript.
Watermark: "Ia M V S Ia" and crest of city of Iaroslavlʹ (bear with axe, type 8), dated by Klepikov 1791-1808 (pp. 70).
Paste-board binding with leather spine and corners, 19th century.
Russian Church Slavic.