Manuscript No. 58: Miscellany of Theological Works

Item Overview

Title

Manuscript No. 58: Miscellany of Theological Works

Date Created

1725

Language

Armenian

Collection

Armenian Manuscripts

Notes

Description

Script: bolorgir. Scribe and place of copy: unknown. Illustrations: headpieces, marginal ornaments and decorative initials. Binding: stamped leather over boards. Inscription on front cover, in English translation reads: "This book is in memory of the monk Parsam, son of the priest Paul."

Provenance

Medieval Armenian Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. \ Avedia K. Sanjian, 1999.

Physical Description

Extent

397 folios.

Binding note

Traditional Armenian binding, probably from New Julfa, of vlinding tooled brown calfskin over thin boards. Textblock almost completely detached from boards. Binding inscribed and blind-tooled on both boards. Upper board has three concentric borders. First two borders are filled with different foliated tools; the third border has an inscription in rekat'agir which reads: "this book is in memory of Parsam the monk, son of the priest Pōłos." Central rectangle has foliated stamp in ech corner and in the center a Crucifxion with kneeling saint and INRI (in Latin letters) above the cross. Lower board has inscription in erkat'agir which reads :"Written in the year 1174 of the Great [Armenian] Era [=A.D. 1725], in the year 110 of the Lesser Era, completed on Adam 12 [= May 16]." Originally it had three clasps, however, at a later point two metal fastenings were attached to the boards (in different place from the original three holes).

Illustrations note

Codex is illustrated with one headpiece (folio 1) with corresponding bird-form incipit initial and symmetrical marginal palmette, and nine polychrome bird-form initials with corresponding symmetrical marginal palmettes which mark the major divisions of the manuscripts.

Keywords

Genre

Manuscripts

Resource type

text