Accession number
MS M.949
Object title
Lives of the saints and Christ (MS M.949).
Display Date
17th century.
Created
Armenia, 17th century.
Binding
Original 17th-century traditional Armenian brown blind-tooled calf; on the front, inside a rectangular floral border, Christ on the Cross; on the back, the Virgin standing on a crescent moon; cotton or linen tabby-weave doublures with multicolored floral designs; probably made in New Julfa, Ịsfahān, Iran.
Credit line
Gift; Anonymous; 1970.
Description
118 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 90 x 64 mm
Provenance
H.H. Torakyan, whose name is inscribed, along with the date, Dec. 20, 1903, on fol. 116.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Armenia in the seventeenth century.
Decoration: manuscript is written in black ink, and some opening lines are are written in gold or blue uncials; 1 large decorated head piece, 5 zoomorphic initials, 3 illuminated initials, and 12 floral ornaments in the borders.
Collation is I¹⁰, II¹²-X¹²--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
Decoration: manuscript is written in black ink, and some opening lines are are written in gold or blue uncials; 1 large decorated head piece, 5 zoomorphic initials, 3 illuminated initials, and 12 floral ornaments in the borders.
Collation is I¹⁰, II¹²-X¹²--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
Script
regular small cursive bologir script
Language
Armenian
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