Hymnal

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

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 8831
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1487
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 357 ff White, fine vellum. 357 folios. 13 x 9.5 cm (written surface 9 x 6.1 cm). Text in a single column of 23 lines. Text is written in bolorgir, with red ink titles and many bird letters or other ornate capitals. Binding is stamped dark brown leather over boards, with flap and leather straps missing, spine slightly repaired in identical leather. Linen doublure on the inside of the front and back covers is green with yellow stripes.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing:. ff.7r-353v Hymnal. ff.354r-357v Blank, intended for principal colophon, but the scribe has written only the letter 'P' of the initial word. Major full-page decorations:. f.1v The last supper. f.2r The washing of the feet. f.3r Christ on the way to Golgotha. f.15v Nativity. f.35v Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple. f.41r The Holy King Theodosius. f.41v King David and St James. f.58v The Garden of Eden. f.108v The raising of Lazarus. f.111r Entry into Jerusalem. f.122v Crucifixion. f.133r The lowering of the body of Christ from the cross. f.133v Entombment. f.136v The resurrection. f.171r Ascension. f.183v Pentecost. f.232v Christ in glory. f.333r The Last Judgement. f.333v Harrowing of Hell. The manuscript is also richly decorated with headpieces and marginal illustrations throughout.

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Other Finding Aids

For more information, see Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume One. London: The British Library. pp 468-476.

Bibliography

Catalogue of materials for writing, early writings on tablets and stones, rolled and other manuscripts and oriental manuscript books, in the library of the Hon. Robert Curzon Parham in the county of Sussex. 1849. London. pp 16-18. Curzon, R. 1854. Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia. London. Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume One. London: The British Library. pp 468-476.