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Collection of texts on the calendar LJS 443
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

Support: paper; Extent: 258 leaves : 186 x 135 (120-140 x 95-98) mm. bound to 195 x 145 mm; 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.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
Commentary
Astrology
Astronomy
Diagrams
Paper
Armenian
Armenia
Christian
Calendar
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Armenia

Date

Written in Armenia after 1416 (date of compilation of commentary on the calendar by Hakob Ghrimetsʻi).

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.

Language

Armenian

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.

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Place of Origin

Armenia

Date

Written in Armenia after 1416 (date of compilation of commentary on the calendar by Hakob Ghrimetsʻi).

Language

Armenian

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.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Script note

Written in a bolorgir script; 19th-century additions (f. 81r).

Decoration Note

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.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
Commentary
Astrology
Astronomy
Diagrams
Paper
Armenian
Armenia
Christian
Calendar
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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