Prayer scroll

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

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 15403
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1767
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 1 f Paper. 54 x 8 cm. Text in a single column, written in bolorgir. The beginning of the text is missing.

Scope and Content

An Armenian scroll containing a selection of prayers and intercessions, including one in Turkish in Armenian script. Eight miniatures: Madonna with Child, portrait of St John the Baptist, standing figure of St Stephen in profile holding a replica of a church, figure of St Gregory the Enlightener kneeling, St Sargis and his son on horseback, St Gevorg on horseback, an Archangel, Christ confronting the devil.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

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 Two. London: The British Library. pp 1100-1101.

Bibliography

Feydit, Frédéric. 1986. Amulettes de l'Arménie chrétienne. Venice: S. Lazar. 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 Two. London: The British Library. pp 1100-1101. Russell, James R. 2011. 'The Armenian Magical Scroll and Outsider Art,' Iran and the Caucasus 15, pp. 5-47.