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Or 5459
- Record Id:
- 032-003460385
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003460385
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085347284.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171606187.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5459
- Title:
- Historical and geographical works
- Scope & Content:
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An Armenian manuscript containing:
ff.1r-7v A mixture of old half-uncial vellum fragments from pre-1300 (ff.1, 6), pen tests (ff.2, 3), ownership records (f.4r) and other writings (f.7), with f.5r a copy of the last two-thirds of f.89r
ff.8r-31v The Geography of Vardan Arewelts'i
ff.31v-33r The Geography of Ananias Shirakats'i (incomplete)
ff.33v-89v The History of the Siwnik' Province by Step'annos Orbelian
ff.89v-96r The Oration of John Chrysostom on the Coat
ff.96v-97v Concerning the lofty-minded hermit
ff.97v-99v A copied sepulchral inscription of Tarsayich King of Kings, which was engraved on the southern column of the K'ēt'ivank' (some folios appear to have fallen out)
ff.100r-219v A sequence of historical pieces taken or paraphrased from classical Armenian historians (chiefly from the Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk' [Epic Histories])
ff.220r-227v Homily on the circumstance that David the Prophet was ordered to number the people, with colophonic material on f.227v
ff.228r-231v Colophonic material and notes
ff.232r-v A modern insert with an index of the manuscript in mainly English
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Armenian Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003460385
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003460385
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item, 232 ff
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171606187.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Armenian
- Scripts:
- Armenian
- Start Date:
- 1614
- End Date:
- 1614
- Date Range:
- 1614
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Paper. 232 folios. 17 x 11 cm (written surface 11.5 x 7 cm). Text in one column of 19 lines. Text is written in notrgir. Binding is modern, of red leather.
- 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 293-298.
- Publications:
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Brosset, Marie-Felicite. 1864-1866. Histoire de la Siounie par Stephannos Orbelian. St Petersburg.
Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 293-298.
Garsoïan, Nina G. 1989. The Epic Histories Attributed to Pʻawstos Buzand: (Buzandaran Patmut'iwnk'). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hewsen, Robert H. 1992. The Geography of Ananias of Širak: The Long and Short Recensions. Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
Thomson, R.W. 1989. 'The Historical Compilation of Vardan Arewelc'i', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43, pp. 125-223.
Thomson, R.W. 1995. A Bibliography of Classical Armenian Literature to AD 1500. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)