Hymnal : in Armenian

Item Information

Title:
Hymnal : in Armenian
Title (alt.):
Šaraknocʻ
Former owner:
La Bibliofila
Date:
[1500?–1599?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Armenia
Manuscripts, Armenian--Armenia
Calf bindings
Clasps
Cloth bindings
Flap bindings
Booksellers' labels
Inscriptions
Dates (Provenance)
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Hymns, Armenian--Early works to 1800
Places:
Armenia
Extent:
384 leaves : paper, ill., music ; 122 x 87 (87 x 52) mm bound to 13 cm in box 15 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Armenia?]
Language:
Armenian
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Likely written in Armenia in the 16th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Later white label on front pastedown with number 15931, partially obliterated by bookseller's ticket. 8-line inked inscription on fol. 1 possibly beginning with date 1861.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in Dec. 1955 from La Bibliofila, Via Manzoni 21, Milano (their label on pastedown).
Notes (object):
Collation: Paper, fol. i (contemporary flyleaf) + 384 ; modern arabic pencil foliation, fol. 184 numbered twice, fol. 330-339 omitted in foliation. May be incomplete (blue ink notation on flyleaf "ff.386-).
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines triple bounding lines, the center one red or gold, outer ones blue.
Script: Written in a Bolorgir script in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 3 full-page illuminated titles, 16 full-page miniatures in Byzantine style depicting the life of Christ, over 150 marginal decorations, four- and six-line zoomorphic initials, two- and three-line initials throughout in gold, blue, and red.
Binding: 16th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, with fore-edge flap, carmine edges and colored textile endpapers. Wooden peg clasps, renewed. Housed in cloth-covered clamshell box.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006).
Notes (language):
In Armenian with music in interlinear khaz notation.
Identifier:
06_01_018711
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.199
MS 1564 (label inside flap) (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789098