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Sermons concerning angels and the rational soul.

Accession number
MS M.437
Object title
Sermons concerning angels and the rational soul.
Display Date
16th century.
Created
Armenia, 16th century.
Binding
Original traditional Armenian binding, reddish-brown calf, fore-edge flap missing, enameled silver repoussé plaques with hinged siver spine nailed to covers executed in late 17th-early 18th-century Kayseri. On the front plaque, 4 male saints, on the back plaque, a depiction of Joseph's Dream based on woodcuts from the Oskan Bible, the first Armenian Bible, printed in Amsterdam in 1666; the Dream of Joseph is based on a woodcut by Christoffel van Sichem (ca. 1546-1624) found on p.432 (second pagination).
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
466 leaves (2 columns, 27 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 191 x 127 mm
Provenance
Four separate stamps are clues to the manuscript's whereabouts at different times: on fol. 5, 2 similar stamps read a) Yovsep' Vardapet, and b) k ̕c ̕(abbreviation for Servant of God - a cleric), Yovsep' Vardapet, and the date 1227, equivalent to 1778 A.D.; a third stamp on fol. 5, repeated on fol. 466v, has an unintelligible monogram and the date A.D. 1828; on fol. 4v, a stamp of ownership by the Armenian Prelacy of Tokat; old shelfmark or dealer's number 721 written in black ink on small blue-bordered paper label on inside front cover; probably purchased by J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Notes
Ms. sermons; written and illuminated in Armenia, 16th century.
Decoration: 1 decorative headpiece on fol. 5; numerous marginal decorations.
Textiles: on the inside front and back covers of the manuscript are maroon coarse linen pastedowns.
Script
bolorgir (fol. 1-225v) and notragir (fol. 230-466v)
Language
Armenian
Century
Classification