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Manuscript No. 5: Grigor Tatewac'i's Book of Questions

Title	Manuscript No. 5: Grigor Tatewac'i's Book of Questions
Publication Date:	1637
Publication Place	- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Type	belge
Language	Armenian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Digital Library of the Middle East
Library Asset ID	Armenian MS 5 \| ark:/21198/zz0025dkqm
Record ID	oai:library.ucla.edu:ark:%2F21198%2Fzz0025dkqm
Library Location	University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Date	1637
Notes	Rebound, probably in the late 19th century. Quarter cloth. Pasteboards covered with bright pink, stained paper, with faded purple cloth spine. No sqaures. Sewing intact, except first three quires resewn. Four V-notches evident. Edges colored red. No endbands, bit fragments of yellowed silk (?) endband threads remain. \| The codex is in a very good state of preservation. Its only defects: the binding is somewhat loose, and the margin of fol. 178 is partially torn off. \| This manuscript's illustrations consist of the one half-page headpiece (fol. 6) eleven small one-column headpieces (fols. 1, 2, 57, 115, 155v. 211, 255, 350, 375, 417v, and 479v) with accompanying marginal ornaments and decorative initials, and two charts (fols. 193v and 328v). \| "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." \| Grigor Tatewac'i's "Book of Questions" appeared in two editions, the first published at New Julfa in 1685-87 and the second at Constantinople in 1729. \| Fols. 546-547. Grigor Tatewac'i's colophon in minuscule nortargir.Fols. 556-556v. Colophone of Grigor Tatewac'i's addressed to the vardapet Georg Erznkac'i, written in minuscule notargir. Fols. 556v-557. Principal colophon of the codex, written in minuscule notargir.Fol. 1v. Written by the scribeat the end of the table of contents, in nortargir.Fol. 435. Written by the scribe in minuscule notargir.Fol. 479. Written by the scribe in minuscule notargir.Much of the illumination in the codex is slightly smudged. \| more \| less
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Manuscript No. 5: Grigor Tatewac'i's Book of Questions

Publication Date 1637

Publication Place - University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Type belge

Language Armenian

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Digital Library of the Middle East

Library Asset ID Armenian MS 5 | ark:/21198/zz0025dkqm

Record ID oai:library.ucla.edu:ark:%2F21198%2Fzz0025dkqm

Library Location University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

Date 1637

Notes Rebound, probably in the late 19th century. Quarter cloth. Pasteboards covered with bright pink, stained paper, with faded purple cloth spine. No sqaures. Sewing intact, except first three quires resewn. Four V-notches evident. Edges colored red. No endbands, bit fragments of yellowed silk (?) endband threads remain. | The codex is in a very good state of preservation. Its only defects: the binding is somewhat loose, and the margin of fol. 178 is partially torn off. | This manuscript's illustrations consist of the one half-page headpiece (fol. 6) eleven small one-column headpieces (fols. 1, 2, 57, 115, 155v. 211, 255, 350, 375, 417v, and 479v) with accompanying marginal ornaments and decorative initials, and two charts (fols. 193v and 328v). | "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." | Grigor Tatewac'i's "Book of Questions" appeared in two editions, the first published at New Julfa in 1685-87 and the second at Constantinople in 1729. | Fols. 546-547. Grigor Tatewac'i's colophon in minuscule nortargir.Fols. 556-556v. Colophone of Grigor Tatewac'i's addressed to the vardapet Georg Erznkac'i, written in minuscule notargir. Fols. 556v-557. Principal colophon of the codex, written in minuscule notargir.Fol. 1v. Written by the scribeat the end of the table of contents, in nortargir.Fol. 435. Written by the scribe in minuscule notargir.Fol. 479. Written by the scribe in minuscule notargir.Much of the illumination in the codex is slightly smudged. | more | less

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