Miscellaneous texts

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Description

Title
Miscellaneous texts
Contributor
Agadon.
Anania, Vardapet.
Kirakos, Gandzaketsʻi, 1201-1271.
Methodius, of Olympus, Saint, -311.
Moses, of Khoren, active 5th century.
Yandrēas.
Published / Created
1600-1699.
Publication Place
unknown
Abstract

Manuscript on paper (incomplete) of texts on various religious, devotional, and historical themes. Contents include Kirakos Vardapet, On the eight sacraments, ff. 1r-6v; treatises on gastronomy, adultery, avarice, melancholy, passion, idleness, vainglory, and pride, ff. 6v-42r; Story of the Hermit Macarius and the conversion of the Emir of Nisibis (incomplete), ff. 52r-125r; Story of the Greek emperor Heraclius on the discovery of the Holy Cross, ff. 125r-153r; Story of young Mehmet, ff. 153r-158v; Bishop Methodius, Commentary on the vision of the prophet Daniel, ff. 162r-181v; Victory of the Christians, ff. 181v-196r; Agadon, History of the propitious times when the power of the Armenians increased..., ff. 196v-219v; Miraculous deeds of St. Minas, ff. 220v-231r; Life and martyrdom of the Patriarch St. Cyril of Jerusalem, ff. 266v-284v; Moses of Khoren, Life of St. Hṙip'simē, ff. 284v-293v; and Anania Vardapet, Homily on St. John, ff. 305r-320r

Description
In Armenian.
Layout: one column of 15-24 lines.
Script: notragir.
Decoration: rubrication.
Binding: mutilated leather over boards, with striped linen doublures. Two parchment flyleaves at beginning from a 10th-century manuscript, and two paper flyleaves at end from a 12th-century manuscript, both in erkat'agir.
Principal colophon wanting. Dating suggested by paleography. An inscription on f. 196r indicates that the manuscript was copied by the scribe Yandrēas.
Some leaves disordered; some missing, including one quire between ff. 51 and 52.
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmark: A195 162. Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Extent
1 volume (ii + 360 + ii leaves) : 160 mm x 105 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Armenian

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Hartford Seminary Armenian MSS 14
Container / Volume
Box

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Hagiographies (works)
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Armenian 17th century
Sermons
Armenian manuscripts
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Geographic)
Armenia
Subject (Name)
Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386.
Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641.
Hṛipʻsime, Saint.
Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century.
Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century.
Armenian Church
Subject (Topic)
Liturgy
History
Subjects
Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386
Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641
Hṛipʻsime, Saint
Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century
Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century
Armenian Church > Liturgy
Armenia > History > Early works to 1800
17th century
Armenian manuscripts
Hartford Theological Seminary. Case Memorial Library > Ownership

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Citation
Miscellaneous Texts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
16268190
Object ID (OID)
2109586

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