Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Armenian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]
• Indjoudjian, Meguerditch, 1884-1927 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett Armenian MS. 9. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Doublures [Browse]
• Furniture [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Illuminated copy of the Four Gospels.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Previously listed as Princeton's Garrett Supplemental 2. Eusebian canons, including section numbers in margins, concordance numbers in lower margins.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. ii (paper) + 208 + ii (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 18 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Watermarks (later flyleaves: three crescents, crown over "AO") ; MS in poor condition, edges damaged, pages repaired. Some faint text overwritten.
• Decoration: Ornate illuminated headpieces on the openings of the Gospels, and decorated initials (fol. 13r, 69r, and 152r). Some decorated initials and capitals throughout the text.

Binding note

Later? binding. Blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards. Red cloth doublures. Multi-colored endbands. Holes across both covers indicate metal furniture now missing.

Language note

Armenian;

Script

Erkat'agir

Contents

• 1. fol. 1r-12v: [Gospel of Matthew]. Incomplete, only ch. 21:23-25:5.
• 2. fol. 13r-68v: [Gospel of Mark]
• 3. fol. 69r-151v: [Gospel of Luke]
• 4. fol. 152r-208v: [Gospel of John]

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Provenance

Note that the ms was offered as a memorial to the Church of Surb Step'annos at Tašmertiwen in 1185/1736 (fol. 143v). Note that the ms remained at that Church in 1809 (fol. 110v). Belonged to M. Indjoudjian prior to entering the Garrett Collection.

References

Sanjian, A. K. A catalogue of medieval Armenian manuscripts in the United States, 96, pages 410-412.

OCLC

1546479508

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