黒本 [Kurohon] (narrative prose published in two to three volumes each printed on 5 leaves with black cover during the mid 18th century ; one type of 草双紙 [kusazōshi], pictorial popular books, published in Edo).
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.
206 folios. Text in notragir, written in one column: folios 1-195 have 23-25 lines each, and folios 196-206 have 31-32. The quires have not been numbered; however, the gatherings appear to have 8 leaves each.
Text in notragir, written in one column of 18 lines. Subtitles in red notragir, and initials of subtitles and opening lines of text in large erkat’agir or notragir in red ink. The quires are not numbered, but the gatherings have 8 leaves each.
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.
The volume also includes lectures on astronomy, sound, Mechanicks (by Mr. Wrigley), and a compendium of technical chronology. The lectures were probably transcribed by John Lord.