Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner.

• Scheide, William Taylor, 1847-1907 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Scheide 80. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—Armenia—17th century [Browse]
• Canon tables [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Scribe: Written by Luke, who signed and dated the manuscript and copied it from a manuscript by Gregory of Tathev (14th or 15th century).
• Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 1 small miniature, illuminated incipit pages, canon frames, 25 pen-and-ink drawings by the artist Khatchatur of Julfa.
• Origin: Written at the monastery of Tathev (old form Statheus) in the northeastern part of greater Armenia.

Binding note

Modern red morocco in maroon morocco solander case.

Language note

Armenian.

Provenance

Executed for Garabed, a priest in the patriarchate of the Catholicus Moses, in the reign of Sakoon, Shah of Persia; presented to William T. Scheide by Wm. J. Eavenson in 1907.

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 80.

Place name(s)

Armenia.

OCLC

54750148

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