Incipit of prologue: Vʺ lěto 7125, fevralę vʺ 19 denʹ, po prikazu gosudari︠a︡ svi︠a︡těishago patrīarkha Filareta Nikiticha...veleno govoritʹ sʺ koret︠s︡kimʺ protopopomʺ izʺ Litvy sʺ Lavrentīemʺ Zizaniem.
Incipit of Catechism: Voprosʺ, ponezhe vsę nasha mudrostʹ khristīęnʹskaę i vsemʺ predlezhitʺ ezhe Gospoda Boga nam znati i saměkhʺ sebe, sego radi voproshai︠u︡tę chto esi ty....
Semi-uncial script, two scribes.
Watermarks: ("Debate") "Ia M A Z" and the crest of the city of Iaroslavlʹ, Klepikov, p. 70, (1756, 1765); ("Catechism") lily, Dianova, 1989, #904 (1643-1666); gate, Dianova, 1980, #1208 (1638); vase, Dianova, 1980, # 810 (1646-1654); pitcher, Dianova, 1989, #295 (1644-1646).
Binding: boards stamped in leather with five brass bosses.
Withdrawal stamp from Iaroslavl rare book store on inside back cover.
Similar 18th-century copies found in the Uvarov Collection, Russian State Historical Museum, Moscow, #274, 275. (See Arkhimandrit Leonid, Sistematicheskoe opisanie slavi︠a︡no-rossiĭskikh rukopiseĭ sobranii︠a︡ Grafa A.S. Uvarova, Chastʹ 1, Moscow, 1893, pp. 259-260.)
Russian Church Slavic.