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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 6798
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1715
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • Codex 264 ff Paper. 264 folios. 17 x 14 cm (written surface 13 x 8.5 cm). Text in a single column of 17-19 lines. Text is written in notrgir, with red headers and capitals. Binding is modern, half-bound in green leather, with the covers of the old tooled bindings glued within the new covers.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing:. ff.3r-14r Questions about the precept of Adam. ff.14v-18v Concerning the coming of Christ to Jerusalem. ff.19r-80r History and testament of the Passion of Christ. ff.80v-138r Honorific titles to be used in addressing a Catholicos. ff.138v-150v A eulogium of and exhortation to the study of philosophy. ff.151r-157v A list of shorthand signs for various names and things. ff.158r-178v A collection of moral tales and parables. ff.179r-184v A chronology. ff.185r-236v Tracts on medicine and physiognomy. ff.237r-239v Proclus' tract on Calends. ff.240r-243r Precepts called 'Of King Nushrowan', very profitable and useful. ff.243v-245v Precepts composed by philosophers. ff.246r-253r A text beginning 'I found the following in Persian and will write it out' that is also found in manuscript Or 6798, from f.57. ff.253v-255v The 37 useful precepts of Aristotle. ff.256r-261v A text beginning 'Four times shall a man humble himself before the dread tribunal...'. ff.262r-264r A text beginning 'If you would find out the letter of the year, proceed as follows: Take steadily the 35th exponent, and subtract...'. f.264v Colophon.

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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 225-228, 328-329.

Bibliography

Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 225-228, 328-329.