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[Collection of texts on the calendar].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 443
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Armenian
- Subjects (All):
- Astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Astrology.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Calendar--Armenia--Early works to 1800.
- Calendar.
- Church year--Early works to 1800.
- Church year.
- Armenia--History--Turkic Mongol Domination, 1045-1522.
- Armenia.
- History.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- diagrams
- poems
- tables (documents)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Armenian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Compiled by order of Abbot T'ovma Medsop'etsi and Hakob Ghrimetsʻi, both Armenian scholars, in or after 1416.
- Formerly owned by Maghakʻia Ōrmanean, patriarch of Constantinople and Armenian scholar.
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2002.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 258 leaves : paper ; 186 x 135 (120-140 x 95-98) mm bound to 195 x 145 mm
- Production:
- [Armenia], [after 1416]
- Language Note:
- Armenian.
- Summary:
- Collection of commentaries, treatises, tables and diagrams concerning the calendar, by authors from the 7th to the 15th centuries, the most recent being Hakob Ghrimetsʻi, who compiled his commentary in 1416, probably within a decade of the copying of this manuscript. Some marginal notations.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-2r: [Introduction]
- 2. f.3r-54v: [Commentary on the calendar / Hakob Ghrimetsʻi ; On the calendar of Hakob Ghrimetsʻi]
- 3. f.55r-56r: [On the liturgical year / Grigor Skewṛatsʻi]
- 4. f.56r-58v: [Commentary on the calendar of Andreas]
- 5. f.58v-60r: [Commentary on the calendar of Anania Shirakatsʻi]
- 6. f.60r-62r: [Commentary on the Roman calendar]
- 7. f.62r-67r: [On the nature of the human body, with discussion of zodiac signs]
- 8. f.67v-68v: [Poem on the nature of the human body]
- 9. f.69r-80v: [Calendar tables]
- 10. f.82r-130r: [Calendar tables]
- 11. f.131r-143r: [Unidentified text with tables and diagram]
- 12. f.144v-145v: [Calendar diagram and table]
- 13. f.145v-212r: [Commentary on the calendar / Hovhannēs Vardapet (also known as Hovhannēs Sarkawag)]
- 14. f.213r-244r: [On astronomy / Anania Shirakatsʻi]
- 15. f.247-254v: [Calendar tables]
- 16. f.255r-257v: [Unidentified work added later to the manuscript]
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, i + 258 + i; 1-5¹² 6⁶ 7⁴(-1) 8-13¹² 14¹⁶(-1) 15¹² 16¹⁰ 17-18¹² 19¹²(-1) 20-21¹² 22¹⁰ 23⁸ 24⁴(-1); 1-167, i, 168-257, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Gatherings have contemporary signatures in ink on the first recto and often on the last verso, lower center. Modern pagination in pencil is also present, upper center or upper outer corners, but pages without text are not paginated. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
- Layout: Written in 26-37 long lines; ruled in drypoint, with prickings visible on many leaves; vertical bounding lines traced in red ink in some works.
- Script: Written in a bolorgir script; 19th-century additions (f. 81r).
- Decoration: Ornamental headpieces with marginal arabesques in red, blue and brown ink (f. 3r, 131r, 137r, 138r, 145v); diagrams in red ink, most with black text (f. 9r, 23r, 47r, 143r, 144v, 156v, 171r, 192r-203r, 204r-210r, 211r-211v); rubrics in red; some tables ruled in red.
- Binding: Blind-tooled calf with patterned fabric lining the covers and the leather flap attached to the lower cover; remnants of straps on lower cover and flap and of catches on upper cover; paper label with inscription in ink on spine.
- Origin: Written in Armenia after 1416 (date of compilation of commentary on the calendar by Hakob Ghrimetsʻi).
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 70 (LJS 443).
- Cited as:
- LJS 443
- Contains:
- Hakob, Ghrimetsʻi, active 14th century.
- Grigor, Skewṛatsʻi, active 12th century.
- Hovhannēs, Vardapet, approximately 1045-1129.
- Anania Shirakatsʻi, active 685.
- OCLC:
- 757338773
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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