Accession number
MS M.625
Object title
Scholium and epistles (MS M.625).
Display Date
1688.
Created
Armenia, 1688.
Binding
17th-century Armenian brown leather over wooden boards; only small fragments of the leather remain; doublures, of striped textile (perhaps silk), inside both covers.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1917.
Description
302 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 160 x 108 mm
Provenance
Owned by Yovakim Khaʻaturean in 1867 (fol. 1; another inscription (fol. 286v) states that he was married on Feb. 20, 1872); gift of P. Tonapetean (P. Tonapetian) to J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1917.
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Armenia in A.E. 1137 (i.e., 1688).
The principal colophon is lacking.
Scribe: Nazar; named in a brief inscription on fol. 213v, which dates the manuscript to A.E. 1137.
Decoration: marginal ornament; zoomorphic initial at the beginning of each chapter.
The principal colophon is lacking.
Scribe: Nazar; named in a brief inscription on fol. 213v, which dates the manuscript to A.E. 1137.
Decoration: marginal ornament; zoomorphic initial at the beginning of each chapter.
Script
notragir
Language
Armenian
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