Manuscript No. 10: Book of Sermons
Item Overview
- Title
- Manuscript No. 10: Book of Sermons
- Uniform title
- Kʻarozgirkʻ
- Date Created
- 17th/18 century A.D.
- Date
- 1601/1800
- Language
- Armenian
- Collection
- Armenian Manuscripts
Notes
- Description
- The MS is a book of Sermons (K‘arozgir‘k). the authors of only five of 36 homilies in the codex are known: nos. XXXII-XXXV are attributed to Mat‘eos Vardapet and no XXXVI to Georg Vardapet.
- Provenance
- There are no colophons of inscriptions in the codex, hence its date of executio and provenance are unknown. The paleography suggests that the MS was probably written in the seventh century. There is no indication as to when and from whom Dr. Minasian acquired the book.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 167 folios
- Dimensions
- 16.5 X 10.5 cm.
- Binding note
- None. Sewn textblock intact. Sewn on two single cords; kettle-stitches. Remnants of cloth spine lining at head and tail, along with fragments of red silk threads from endbanads (no longer extant). Edges uncolored except for a black line 2 cm. away from spine at both head and tail. Not an Armenian sewing structure. Watermark: bunch of grapes with small S and crowned medallion with fleur-de-lis.
- Condition note
- Except for the missing binding, the MS is in a fairly good state of preservation.
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- Armenian MS 10
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0026hv4f
- 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) 825-4926