The object of consideration in the article is a hook notation miscellany from the library of Siberian Old Believers- stranniki (wanderers), a copy of which is kept in the collections of the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (II SB RAS 4/01g). The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of correspondence of this miscellany to the typical Obikhod by methods of paleography and codicology and to identify signs of transformation of its structure.

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... he analysis is carried out at the level of handwriting, internal design and editorship of the hymnographic text, repertoire of chants and principles of their unification into large sections. The study has stated that the collection is a possessory convolute of six independent manuscripts, compiled not earlier than the first half of the XX century. Its structure is based on the book of songs Obikhod of the Pomorian Old Believers editorship, the transformation of which was carried out by expanding the repertoire by introducing chants traditionally belonging to another singing book - Oktoikh. It is concluded that the compiler of the convolute formed it purposefully, striving to create a book of songs of universal content.