Publication Date
17th century
Publication Place
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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 17 | ark:/21198/zz0026hv70
Record ID
oai:library.ucla.edu:ark:%2F21198%2Fzz0026hv70
Library Location
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Date
17th century
Notes
None: At present, textblock is crudely stab-sewn with thick cord wrapped through stabbed hole and spine. Fragments of original leather and cloth spine lining can be seen on spine. Text was previously sewn over four vellum supports. | Poor state of preservation. Folios missing at the beginning and end of the codex. Some leaves have suffered damage from dampness. Crude outline drawings in black ink have been added in more recent times. The margin of fol. 4 has been cut out, probably to remove the decoration. | The MS is illustrated with 13 marginal ornaments and 14 large decorative initials. Each illumination is based on a drawing in uneven lines of black ink. Up to folio 48v, the drawings have been overpainted in bright, uneven washes of red, blue, and purple. Little blank paper is reserved, and the resulting images look flat. Starting with fol. 48v, the ink drawings have not been colored. On folios 1-73, the decorative initials correspond to the marginal illuminations. These letters are all bird-form. Often they deviate awkwardly from traditional dispositions of the birds; for example, the letter A is composed if three birds of equal size, two joined at their tails to form the vertical body of the letter, and the third comprising a greatly oversized horizontal ligature. Starting with fol. 74v, the letters are no longer bird-form, and there are no marginalia.Fol. 86v, one of the older leaves at the end, that do not belong to this codex, carries a badly preserved one-column headpieces and a marginal palmette, drawn in magenta and highlighted in blue. Their softly modeled forms recall the illumination of MS 5. | 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. | Prayers/inscriptions written by scribe:Fols, 17, 20, 37v, 48v, 51v, 54, 57v, 61v, 65, and 79vLater inscriptions:Fols. 38v-39r. Written in lower margins of both pages in crude handwriting.Fol. 59v. In left margin in bolorgir.Fol. 85v. Two illegible inscriptions, one in left margin and the other in lower margin.Fol. 86. In lower margin in notragir.Fol. 86v. At the end of text in left column in notragir.Fol. 86v. In lower margin in crude notragir.Fol. 87v. In left and lower margins in crude notragir. | more | less
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Armenian Manuscripts
