Onfim's illustrations include pictures of knights, horses, arrows, and slain enemies.
Most of Onfim's writing consists of citations from the Book of Psalms. His writing includes phrases such as "Lord, help your servant Onfim" and fragments from Psalms 6:2 and 27:3. The writings are clearly learning exercises: Onfim practiced by writing out the alphabet, repeating syllables, and writing psalms-texts that were presumably familiar to him. One of the drawings features a knight on a horse, with Onfim's name written next to him, stabbing someone on the ground with a lance, with scholars speculating that Onfim pictured himself as the knight. Twelve of those have illustrations, five only text. Onfim left seventeen known birch bark items. The great number of beresty is indicative of a high rate of literacy among the population, as is the large number of styluses. In Russia, birch bark manuscripts are called beresta ("birch bark", plural: beresty), and the academic field that studies them is called berestology (Russian: berestologija). Since 1951, more than 1100 pieces of birch bark with writing on it have been found, and more are dug up every summer. Some 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Saint Petersburg, the city is surrounded by birch forests, whose bark was used for centuries by the locals for writing since it was soft and easily scratched. Scholars believe that the Novgorod Republic had an unusually high level of literacy for the time, with literacy apparently widespread throughout different classes and among both sexes. At the time Onfim lived, it was the capital of the Novgorod Republic. Novgorod, now known as Veliky Novgorod, is the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast. Besides letters and syllables, he drew "battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher". Onfim, who was most likely six or seven at the time, wrote in the Old Novgorodian dialect of Old East Slavic.
He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim ( Old Novgorodian: Онѳиме, Onfime Russian: Онфим also Anthemius of Novgorod) was a Novgorodian boy who lived in Novgorod (now Veliky Novgorod, Russia) in the 13th century, some time around 1220 or 1260. Onfim's homework exercises and "I am a wild beast", c.
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