Acquired by LC from Serge Cheremeteff, Washington, D.C.
Seventeenth-century Muscovite printed charter. Cf. A.V. Lavrentʹev. "Propavshai͡a︡ gramota" 1682 goda. In Arkhiv russkoĭ istorii, v. 6 (1995): p. 206-225.
Signed and approved by the official (dʹi͡a︡k) Avtonom Ivanov; signed at end by the scribe (podʹi͡a︡chiĭ) Efreemka Sukmanov.
Issued in Moscow by Pomestnyĭ prikaz (the State land grant office) and printed in the late 17th-century font of Moskovskai͡a︡ tipografii͡a︡.
Baroque printer's devices at top and sides of text include the Russian state coat of arms with the double-headed eagle. First word of text printed in a monogram: Bozhiei͡u︡. Black ink on cream-colored paper; scribe's signature in brown ink. Paper, probably French, has the watermark WR under a fleur-de-lis under a crown, and the countermark HSPB under a cross. Paper shows some foxing and 18th-century repairs.
Attached at bottom with an embroidered silk fastener to a second, blank leaf of paper at back and a cover of 17th-century silk brocade cloth. A twisted cord threaded through the fastener has remnants of a wax seal.