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Description:: "The codex is a complete copy of Grigor Tatewac'i's ""Book of Questions"" which is a sort pf ecclesiastical-religious encyclopedia in the form of interrorgations and responses for the use of students. The work is divided into ten books."
Date:: 1637
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in large bolorgir in black ink, written in two columns of 19-21 lines. Initials and first lines of pericopes in large erkat'agir in red ink. Eusebian section numbers in margins against text; concordance numbers in lower margins.According to the principal colophon (fols. 218v-219), the MS was written by the priest Astuacatur, during the pontificate of Catholicos Zak'aria I (Sefedinian, 1296-1327), of the see if Aghtamar. Although the book was initally commissioned by the priests Karapet and Hayrapet, it was actually acquired by Hayrapet. Although the book's okace if execution is unknown, it can perhaps safely be assumed that it was written in teh region of Lake Van.
Date:: 1327
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: See Sanjian, Avedis K. Medieval Armenian Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
Date:: 1300-1307
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

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