On the issue of the 17th century book revision: the revision of “the apostle” in 1679

In 1872 a work by V.E. Rumyantsev titled “The Collected Monuments Relating to the Book Printing in Russia” was published which contained in its end a report on the 1679 revision of “The Apostle” book by the revisers of the Moscow Printing Yard at the time of patriarch Joakim. The study of the document allows us to trace back the history of “The Apostle” revision from its first printed version to “The Apostle” of the 1751 Elizabethan Bible and to determine the changes of the text.