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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

Description:: The codex is a copy of the Armenian translation of teh "Commentary on the Cantica Canticorum" by Cornelius a Lapide ( 1567-1637), also known as Cornelius Cornelissen van den Steen, Flemish exegete. The book also contains another commentary on the Song of Songs by an unknown author.Cornelius a Lapide was born at Bocholt near Liege, and was educated at the Jesuit colleges of Maastricht and Cologne. IN 1592 he entered the Jesuit order, and became professor of exegesis at Louvain in 1596. In 1616 he was called to Rome, where he taught the same subject and completed his celebrated commentaries, comprising all the Canonical Books except Job and the Psalms. “His works, which have enjoyed enduring popularity, are characterized by their clarity, deep spirituality, and allegorical and mystical exegesis”; his wide erudition enabled him to draw extensively on the Church Fathers and on medieval theologians.
Date:: 1650
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 17 lines. Subtitles in notragir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir.Because there are many lacunae, it is impossible to determine the number of quires. Some complete quires suggest that the gatherings probably had 12 leaves.
Date:: early 17th Century
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

Description:: Text in minuscule bolorgir, written in two columns of 31 lines each. Titles of homilies in red bolorgir; the opening lines of texts usually in large erkat‘agir, and several succeeding lines in magenta bolorgir. Subtitles within individual homilies in red bolorgir. Abbreviations used extensively throughout the text. Fifty-one quires numbered in the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in large notragir in magenta in the lower margin of the page. The quires have gatherings of 12 leaves each.
Date:: 1754-68
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:: Most of the text written in bolorgir, the remainder (fols. 6-9, 20, 27-29v, 35v-36, 38-39) in notragir, text written in one column of 20-23 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, or notragir, and initials mostly in red erkat’agir.
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Armenian Manuscripts

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

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