Details

Subject(s)

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

Bookseller

• Maggs Bros [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Scheide M 74. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Bosses (Bindings) [Browse]
• Calf bindings [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Canon tables [Browse]
• Manuscripts—Armenia—13th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Summary note

Ms. Gospel book, preceded by the letter of Eusebius to Carpianus and Canon tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Scribe: Kostandin (Constantine), who signed and dated the colophon on fol. 119.
• Decoration: 6 full-page miniatures (the Four Evangelists, the Annunciation, and the Nativity are different paper in later 17th-century hand); canon tables; initials.
• Origin: Written in the church of the Holy Sion and the Life-giving Cross in Cilicia, Armenia in 1219 (Armenian era 668).

Binding note

Old calf over wooden boards, with flap and bosses.

Language note

Armenian;

Script

bolorgir.

Provenance

From the church of Holy Sion and the Life-giving Cross; obtained from Maggs (Cat. 675, no. 1, 1939).

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 74.

Place name(s)

Armenia Cilicia.

OCLC

54750140

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