Accession number:
MS M.803
Title:
Lectionary
Created:
Vahnashēn, Armenia, July 17, 1334.
Binding:
A note on added leaf records restoration of the binding and cover in 1531; bound in the traditional Armenian manner, in dark brown morocco, blind tooled; fragmentary fore-edge flap, front cover with stepped cross surrounded by a guilloche border; back cover with a cross over a rectangle surrounded by a guilloche border.
Credit:
Purchased from Elizabeth Riefstahl, 1937.
Description:
477 leaves (2 columns, 31-32 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 325 x 235 mm
Provenance:
Made for or owned by Baron Shnofor and his wife Tawna (named in the colophon and in the prayer on fol. 476, 476v); Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl; purchased from Elizabeth T. Riefstahl in 1937.
Notes:
Ms. lectionary; written and illuminated in Vahnashēn, Turkey, between Erzerum and Erzincan, and completed July 17, 1334.
Scribe: Vardan Lorets'i; his two sons, Melk'isedek and Elimēlēk, and the priest Nater; they are named in the colophon on fol. 457v-477, which also gives the date of the completion of the manuscript.
Decoration: 1 half-page miniature, 3 ornamental headpieces, 15 marginal vignettes, 35 marginal figures of saints.
Artist: Mkrtich'.
Script:
bolorgir
Language:
Armenian
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