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Sloane MS 1338
- Record Id:
- 040-002113688
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x000009
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1338
- Title:
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ლოცვანი (Book of prayers)
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript contains 2 acathistic works in honour of Christ and the Most Holy Mother of God. There are also insertions by later hands - prayers and momentos.
Most of the prayers are headed as being from the Liturgy.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002113688 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 1338 : ლოცვანი (Book of prayers) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1342]/040-002113688
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 manuscript
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_1338 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Georgian
- Scripts:
- Georgian
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Stout white paper. Old brown calf binding.
Dimensions: Size external 150 mm x 105 mm, internal 150 mm x 100 mm.
Foliation and script: Fine large, clear khutsuri hand with many abbreviations; capitals sometimes in red. Consists of 128 folios in quires of 8, with nine lines to the page. Stuck in on fol.35 is an illuminated narrow strip of paper with two lines in khutsuri on the back; it was evidently taken from a much older MS.
There are insertions by later hands on folios 1r, 1v, 2r, 2v, 125r, 125v, 126r, 126v,127r,127v, 128r, 128v.
Fol.1r: 'God forgive the sinful Ioseb. Amen. Kyrie eleison' in mkhedruli, followed in khutsuri by 'God forgive Ioseb the sinful...'
Fol. 2v: primitive ornamental sketch of the cross with the prayer in small khutsuri, and this note in mkhedruli : 'on Friday, June 22nd, in the year coronikon 350 (=A.D.1661), there was an eclipse of the sun at Astrakhan on the day when the writer was at dinner'.
- Custodial History:
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Fol. 124 contains the following information: Protect o Lord Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia Christophorus at whose behest this book was written in coronikon Ti (1622)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Like MS Sloane 1350 it bears the autograph of Thomas Smith: 'an Iberian book or in the Sacred Georgian character'.
- Administrative Context:
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Fol. 124 contains the following information: Protect o Lord Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia Christophorus at whose behest this book was written in coronikon Ti (1622)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)