Manuscript No. 76: Hamaṛōtutʻiwn čartasanut'ean
Item Overview
- Title
- Manuscript No. 76: Hamaṛōtutʻiwn čartasanut'ean
- Alternative title
- Mxit'ar Sebastac'i's Concise Book of Rhetoric
- Author
- Mechitar, 1676-1749
- Date Created
- 1758
- Language
- Armenian
- Collection
- Armenian Manuscripts
Notes
- Description
- See Sanjian, Avedis K. Medieval Armenian Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
- Colophon
- Two colophons on fols. 127v-128v written by the scribe Yakob. The first states that the writing of the book was completed on June 8, in the year 1207 of the Armenian Era (i.e. AD 1758). The second, dated October 1, 1208 (i.e. AD 1759) states that the scribe was from the village of Yewk'aria, near Kayseri in Anatolia. He wrote the book as a memorial to himself and his late wife, Kilistē, but later offered it to the vardapet Yovanēs at the monastery of Lim. (Sanjian, p. 292.)
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 volume (128 fols.)
- Dimensions
- 15 x 9.5 cm (written surface area 11 x 6.5 cm)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- Armenian MS 76
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz001gqf7t
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4940