Historical and geographical works

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 5459
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1614
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 232 ff 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.

Scope and Content

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.

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Other 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.

Bibliography

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.