Pechersk Pateryk [Paterik" ili Otečnik" pečerskij, sodežaŝ" žitiă s[vă]tyh" Pr[e]p[o(d)o]bnyh" i B[o]gonosnyh" O(t)c" naših Prosiăvših" v Peŝerah]Kyiv, 1668. Pechersk Lavra Printing House. Second edition.

Pechersk Pateryk [Paterik" ili Otečnik" pečerskij, sodežaŝ" žitiă s[vă]tyh" Pr[e]p[o(d)o]bnyh" i B[o]gonosnyh" O(t)c" naših Prosiăvših" v Peŝerah]Kyiv, 1668. Pechersk Lavra Printing House. Second edition.

S. (13), 274, [14], 1 k. engraving in woodcut. H. 31 cm. Binding leather on board (damaged). Missing 1 card at the beginning and 1 k. of woodcut plates at the end (one woodcut of two survives).

Condition: Piece heavily damaged, to be preserved. Front part of the binding loose. Some pages with loss of margins, restored with old paper in light blue (not all), sometimes to the detriment of the text. Much of the restorations do not stick to the paper. Recent pages with more losses. Some pages with paper loss or tears. Some pages loose. Reshuffling of several pages of the regester. Staining of pages, minor losses, traces of former flooding. Traces of mold. A card with an emblem is missing.
Book after disinfection in the chamber of the Jagiellonian Library.

A rare second edition of Kyiv's "Pateryk," or Lives of the Saints of the Church. The first edition of the work was published in Kyiv in 1661. The present piece contains 47 illustrations in the text, reflected from 47 woodcut boards.

Estreicher does not note.

Kyiv-Pechersky Pateryk (original Києво-Печерський патерик), full title: Kyiv-Pechersky Pateryk, or stories about the holy fathers in the Kyiv caverns - a monument of Old Russian literature, a collection of stories about the monks of the Kyiv-Pechersky Monastery, later the Lavra. One of the most original works of Ruthenian hagiographic literature. Its basis consists of texts written down by Simon, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, and Polycarp, a monk of Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery, supplemented over the centuries by more biographies of the monks. [after wikipedia.pl]