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Or 6990

Record Id:

032-003459127

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003459127

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100084384123.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100171607086.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 6990

Title:

Songs, tales and religious material

Scope & Content:

An Armenian manuscript containing:

Songs, tales and religious material.

Before f.1 is a fragmentary manuscript page with minimal text.

ff.1r-27v Songs, chiefly by Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i

ff.28v-94v The tale of the City of Bronze

ff.94v-95v Colophonic material

ff.96r-121v History of the peasant and the matter of the acre

ff121v-122v Colophonic material

ff.123r-159r Tract of the Questions of St Gregory the Illuminator

ff.159v-169v Life and austerities of P'alul the King, with kafas in red ink

ff.170r-171v Without title, a hymn to the Virgin Mary, half in Armeno-Turkish

ff.172r-175r Biographical notices

ff.175v-179v Canticle of Mercy

ff.180r-182v Biographical notices, including on f.181v a note about the book falling into a river and turning the first two pages black

ff.183r-184r Prayers of Grigor Narekats'i

f.184v Biographical notices

ff.185r-192r Canticle of the Annunciation

ff.192v-200v Hymns

ff.201r-202v Teaching of Saints Basil and Gregory

ff.203r-207r Hymns

ff.207v-208r Song by Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i

f.208v Spells

ff.209r-210v Biographical notices

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Armenian Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003459127

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003459127

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 210 ff

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Armenian
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Armenian

Start Date:

1560

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

Late 16th century-17th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Paper. 210 folios. 16 x 11 cm (written surface 11 x 7.5 cm). The ff.1, 207, 209 and 210 have been torn and repaired. Text is in a single column of 13 lines. Text is written in bolorgir in two hands: the first hand wrote ff.1-169, 175-199 as well as 170-171 in a different style of writing; the second hand wrote ff.200-210. The manuscript has been rebound in green leather half-binding.

Finding Aids:

For more information, see Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 269-272.

Publications:

Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 269-272.

Russell, James R. 1983. 'The Tale of the Bronze City in Armenian' in Thomas J. Samuelian and Michael E. Stone (eds.) Medieval Armenian Culture. Chico, CA: Scholars Press. pp 250-261.

Russell, James R. 1987. Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i and the Mediaevel Armenian Lyric Tradition. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

Russell, James R. 2009. 'The Cross and the Lotus: The Armenian Miscellancy Patmut'iwn płnjē k'ałak'i ('History of the City of Brass') on the Periphery of the Iranian Oikoumene' in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart (eds.) The Idea of Iran, Volume IV: The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris. pp 71-83.

Srapyan, Armenuhi. 1983. Patmut'iwn vasn mankann ew aghjkann, patmut'iwn yaghags P'ahlul t'agaworin. Erevan: Academy of Sciences.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)