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An excerpt from a unique manuscript scroll, almost ten metres long, containing the creed of the so-called Old Believers - members of the Russian Orthodox Church who did not accept the reform of Patriarch Nikon from the middle of the 17th century. The texts are accompanied by coloured miniatures of a didactic, critical or apocalyptic nature. Date: 1670-1700