Lives of the Desert Fathers

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Add MS 27301
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1614
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 447 ff Glazed paper. 447 folios. 23.8 x 16.5 cm (written surface 18 x 12.4 cm). Text in double columns in 33 lines. Text is written in notrgir. Certain folios are misplaced and should follow this order: 334, 344, 336-343, 335, 345. Oriental binding in black leather.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing the following:. ff.1r-444r Lives of the Desert Fathers. ff.444v-447v Principal colophon. Headpieces and 25 illuminated pictures of saints are present throughout the manuscript. The most remarkable are on ff.5v, 228v, 255v, 322v, 325r, 329v, 333v, 334r, 344v, 353v, 358, 362v, 363r, 413r, 431v, 436r.

Access Information

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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 209-215.

Bibliography

Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 209-215. Cowe, S. Peter. 2011. 'Armenian Hagiography' in Stephanos Efthymiadis (ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography. Farnham: Ashgate. 299-332. Nersessian, Vrej Nerses. 2007. 'Eastern Christian Hagiographical Traditions: Oriental Orthodox: Armenian Hagiography' in Ken Parry (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. Oxford: Blackwell. 458-461.