Songs, tales and religious material

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 6990
  • Dates of Creation
    • Late 16th century-17th century
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex 210 ff Paper. 210 folios. 16 x 11 cm (written surface 11 x 7.5 cm). The ff.1, 207, 209 and 210 have been torn and repaired. Text is in a single column of 13 lines. Text is written in bolorgir in two hands: the first hand wrote ff.1-169, 175-199 as well as 170-171 in a different style of writing; the second hand wrote ff.200-210. The manuscript has been rebound in green leather half-binding.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing:. Songs, tales and religious material. Before f.1 is a fragmentary manuscript page with minimal text. ff.1r-27v Songs, chiefly by Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i. ff.28v-94v The tale of the City of Bronze. ff.94v-95v Colophonic material. ff.96r-121v History of the peasant and the matter of the acre. ff121v-122v Colophonic material. ff.123r-159r Tract of the Questions of St Gregory the Illuminator. ff.159v-169v Life and austerities of P'alul the King, with kafas in red ink. ff.170r-171v Without title, a hymn to the Virgin Mary, half in Armeno-Turkish. ff.172r-175r Biographical notices. ff.175v-179v Canticle of Mercy. ff.180r-182v Biographical notices, including on f.181v a note about the book falling into a river and turning the first two pages black. ff.183r-184r Prayers of Grigor Narekats'i. f.184v Biographical notices. ff.185r-192r Canticle of the Annunciation. ff.192v-200v Hymns. ff.201r-202v Teaching of Saints Basil and Gregory. ff.203r-207r Hymns. ff.207v-208r Song by Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i. f.208v Spells. ff.209r-210v Biographical notices.

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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 269-272.

Bibliography

Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 269-272. Russell, James R. 1983. 'The Tale of the Bronze City in Armenian' in Thomas J. Samuelian and Michael E. Stone (eds.) Medieval Armenian Culture. Chico, CA: Scholars Press. pp 250-261. Russell, James R. 1987. Yovhannēs T'lkurants'i and the Mediaevel Armenian Lyric Tradition. Atlanta: Scholars Press. Russell, James R. 2009. 'The Cross and the Lotus: The Armenian Miscellancy Patmut'iwn płnjē k'ałak'i ('History of the City of Brass') on the Periphery of the Iranian Oikoumene' in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart (eds.) The Idea of Iran, Volume IV: The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris. pp 71-83. Srapyan, Armenuhi. 1983. Patmut'iwn vasn mankann ew aghjkann, patmut'iwn yaghags P'ahlul t'agaworin. Erevan: Academy of Sciences.