Triodion (Lenten Triodion)

Printed at the printing house of the Kyiv Pechersk Dormition Lavra in 1907.

Printed in two colors (black and red), the text in Church Slavonic. Catchwords appear at the foot of the pages, with letter foliation in the upper right corner. The book is decorated with running heads, ornamental patterns, headpieces, initials, and tailpieces.

On the title page is a handwritten inscription (in Russian): "Archpriest Nikita Yavorsky. 1927. Kharkiv."

The cover is of stiff cardboard, bound in dark-brown leather. On the front cover is an ornamental frame, within which is a shaped cartouche containing the scene of the "Crucifixion" with the figures of the Mother of God and John the Theologian. On the back cover is an ornamental frame, within which is a shaped cartouche containing depictions of the Gospel, a chalice, a cross, an anchor, and the Holy Spirit as a dove in radiant rays.

The book was acquired by the museum from Petro Vasylovych Bludov, a resident of the settlement of Vasyshcheve, Kharkiv district, Kharkiv region, in 1982.

Note: the Triodion (Greek Triῳdion — "three odes") is a liturgical book of the Byzantine-Slavonic tradition for the pre-Easter portion of the church calendar. It contains prayers and hymns of predominantly penitential character for the preparatory and Lenten weeks, as well as for Holy Week, from the week of the Publican and the Pharisee through to Pascha. The hymns are set out mainly in the form of three odes (hence the name).