Letopisets nebesnykh znamenii: litsevoi rukopisnyi sbornik XVII veka iz sobraniia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, Tom II, teksty, issledovanie, kommentarii (The chronicler of celestial events: illuminated seventeenth-century compendium from the collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volume two: texts, research, commentary)
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii Dom, 2018. The second volume includes the text of the manuscript in modern print, a scholarly description of the manuscript, a survey of the content, analysis of the drawings and images, codological description, history of the creation of the manuscript, hypothesis on authorship, a note on sources, indexes and illustrated commentary. A tour do force of scholarship. Vol. 2: 523 p., approx. 150 color, Old Russian, Rus. with summary in ENGLISH. Item #3260
The chronicle recounts unusual natural events — solar and lunar eclipses; the northern lights and the sighting of meteors — and also stories and tales of catastrophes and political upheaval such as the Time of Troubles. This is the first publication of the manuscript. ISBN for 2-vol. set: 9785877810600. Two-volume set: $174.00.
Price: $87.00