The book Apostle was printed in 1690-s in the city of Vilna (today’s Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania). The historians believe it was issued by the printing house of Luca and Kuzma Mamonich — distinguished book publishers of the 17th century. Mamonich brothers printed religious books in Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Polish and Old Belorussian languages.

In the 17th century, paper for books was manufactured in paper mills — specialized factories, where craftsmen cooked thick fibrous mass from rags and plant fiber. Then they poured this mass into flat mesh trays, leveled it out, dried and cut into sheets of the desired size. It was called mill paper based on the manufacturing method.

A separate mould was casted for each letter. The mould mirrored the letter. Words were composed from such moulds on a special board, which was then covered with dye. After that, paper sheets were pressed against such board to receive a print. The main text was black, dropped capitals in the beginning of the chapters and some important fragments were printed in red.

The book Apostle was transferred to the collection of Bryansk local museum from the collections of the State History Museum in Moscow. It was restored several times: cleaned and restored the covers, clasps and flyleaves, and glued the sheets which had fallen out during using the book.