A color drawing of women carrying jars of water. There are several jugs on the ground nearby the women and children who are outside drawing water., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the mission agency and a caption: "Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 9 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, S.W.I.- Northern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] Diocese. - Water is scarce in the dry season. Women are getting water from a "water hole" in the dried up bed of a river."
An anthology of translated and Russian accounts of the posthumous miracles of the Virgin Mary.
Description:
130 miniatures from the second half of the 19th century, including full illuminations depicting miracles of the Virgin., Binding, 17th-18th century, boards in stamped leather with one intact clasp; spine restored in 19th century., Incipit: Bogotechnui︠u︡ zvězdu i︠u︡zhe viděvshe volʹsvi, o neĭ zheprorochestvovashe Valaa drevle, i toi︠a︡ pōslědovasha zari...., Possible translation from a Ruthenian printed version (see Slovarʹ Knizhnikov i knizhnosti drevnei Rusi, 17 vek (A-Z), St. Petersburg, 1992, pp. 398-400)., Purchased from Svetlana Aronov on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1997. Late 17th century ownership inscription on verso of first leaf attributed to Pantelei, son of Afanasi., Russian Church Slavic., Similar 17th-century copy found in Undolʹskij Collection, Russian State Library, Moscow, # 398. (See V. M. Undolʹskiĭ, Slavi︠a︡no-russkie rukopisi V.M. Undol'skago, Moscow, 1870, pp. 263-264.)., Stamp with two-headed eagle dated 1746 on inside back cover., and Watermarks: jester's head (Dianova, 1980, #355 (1683), #327 (1652)); crest of the city of Amsterdam with the letters IP (Dianova, 1980, #159 (1680)).
Subject (Name):
Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Russia, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Russia, and Pantelei,--son of Afanasi--Ownership
