Հմայիլ Hmayil, Prayer Scroll

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

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 15274
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1666
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 1 f Vellum. 548 x 72 cm (written width 51 cm). Text written in notrgir, with verse capitals and headings in red ink. The beginning of the text is missing.

Scope and Content

An Armenian scroll containing prayers and incantations to heal the sick and protect the owner from evils of all kinds. Eleven miniatures: the Crucifixion, sequence of medallions (the Virgin Mary with Child, St Gregory the Enlightener, St John the Baptist, St Stephen the Protomartyr), Abraham sacrificing Isaac, a full standing portrait of Christ holding a book, Jesus emerging from the chalice holding a wafer, Christ carrying the cross, St Sargis and his son Martiros on a white charger, portrait of an Archangel holding a globe.

Access Information

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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 Two. London: The British Library. pp 1087-1089.

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 1087-1089. Russell, James R. 2011. 'The Armenian Magical Scroll and Outsider Art,' Iran and the Caucasus 15, pp. 5-47.