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Description:: Text in modern sheghagir, in black and red ink, written in one column of 23-26 lines. The book’s title is written in large, bold erkat’agir. Some large initials are in red erkat’agir; other smaller initials in erkat’agir or notragir capitals in black or red ink. The quires are not numbered.
Date:: 1825
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in exquisite notragir, written in one column of 18 lines. Subtitles and opening lines of text in bolorgir, and large erkat’agir initials throughout the codex. Twenty-nine quires of 8 leaves each, numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet written in bolorgir in the lower margin of the page.
Date:: 1807
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in notragir, written in one column of 27-29 lines. Subtitles in red notragir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir or notragir. There are many lacunae in the codex and numerous leaves have been misbound; hence a number of gatherings have an uneven number of leaves. The codex at one time had at least 15 quires, with gatherings of 12 leaves.
Date:: 17th/18th Century
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 17 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, and several initial lines of individual texts in red or magenta bolorgir. Large erkatagir initials throughout the codex.Seventeen quires numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bolorgir in he lower margin of the page. Except for quire 17, which has only two leaves, the quires have gatherings of twelve leaves each.
Date:: 1693
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Fragments of three Ritual Books, herewith described individually: Fragment I: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 22-26 lines. Subtitles mostly in bolorgir, others in notragir; initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, all in black ink.Fragment II: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 15-18 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, in red ink.Fragment III: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 20 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, also in red. Fragment I consists of one quire of 10 leaves. The quires of Fragments II and III appear to have had 12 leaves each.
Date:: 16th-17th Century
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Fragment I: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 20 lines. Subtitles and opening lines of text in red bolorgir. Large initials in red erkat’agir throughout the text. Fifteen quires numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bolorgir in the lowe margin of the page. Currently the fragment has many lacunae and some folios have been misbound; hence the number of leaves in the gatherings is uneven.Fragment II: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 24 lines. Subtitles in red or magenta, written in bolorgir, except of the opening line of text on fol. 99 written in magenta erkat’agir. Large initials in red erkat’agir throughout the text. Six quires with gatherings of 12 leaves each are numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bologir in the lower margin of the page.
Date:: 1667-1580
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in bolorgir, written by several hands in one column of 18-19 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir; some opening lines of text in erkat’agir and others in bolorgir in red or magenta ink. Initials throughout the codex in red erkat’agir.Two sets of quire numbers in the codex, the first consisting of 13 and the second of 17 numbered quires. Because of the many lacunae in the book, and because folios are missing at the end, it is difficult to determine the number of leaves in each gathering; however, it appears that the gatherings were of 10 or 12 leaves.
Date:: 1513
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Paper, 120 folios. Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 16 lines. Folios 96v-120v, also in bolorgir, are written by a different hand. Subtitles are in red bolorgir. The first lines of individual texts are in magenta erkat’agir, and the second lines are in red bolorgir. Large red erkat’agir initials throughout the codex.Thirteen quires numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bolorgir in the lower margin of the page. Each quire appears to have had gatherings of 12 leaves.
Date:: 15th/16th Century
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Paper; 89 folios. Text in notragir, written in one column on 28 lines. Subtitles of texts in red bolorgir. Large decorative initials on the opening lines of text: the first lines of text are in magenta arkat’agir, the second in red bolorgir, the rest of the page in notragir. Numerous initials throughout the codex in red notragir capital letters.There are two sets of quire numbers. According to the original numbering, the codex consisted of 8 quires, but at least 8 leaves are missing at the beginning and others at the end of the book. The first numbered quire is on fol. 9v, designating it as quire 2. The remaining numbered quires have a varying number of leaves: no. 3 has fourteen, no. 4 has sixteen, nos. 5, 6, and 12 have twelve, and no. 7 has ten leaves. According to the second set of quire numbers, the original codex consisted of 14 numbered quires.
Date:: 17th century
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in bolorgir, written in two columns. Columns separated by border lines in purple ink. Subtitles and other divisions throughout the codex in red ink. Index on fols. 267-276 is in minuscule notragir. Corrections of text in the margins in notragir. The codex has two sets of numbers. The book originally consisted of 560 pages numbered by the scribe with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in the left and right upper corners of the page The ten surviving folios of the codex are not numbered. The second set of numbers was done by Dr. Minasian at a time when the codex consisted of 278 folios. Since then however, fols. 1-4 have disappeared. Twenty-three quires numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in large bolorgir in the lower margin of the page, mostly in black but occasionally also in red ink. The quires usually have gatherings of twelve leaves each. Because leaves are missing at the beginning, quire 1 has five and quire 2 has eleven leaves; quires 20 and 23 have eight leaves, and quire 22 has six.
Date:: 1742
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

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