Script: Bolor'gir script Script: Characters in red, brown, and black ink. Script: Script is quite precise, angular, and has some horizontal compression Decoration: Headpieces and marginal decorations, mainly floral but including some animal figures, in red, brown, and violet ink. Decoration: Headpiece decoration on fol. 2r is comparable to that of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Arm. d. 5 and MS. Arm. d. 16. Decoration: Decoration in those manuscripts is ca. 13th or 14th century, which forms the basis of the estimated date for this manuscript (Baronian, Sukias, Rev.; Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis); Catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Oxford, Clarendon Press 1918) Binding: Full brown sheep over wooden boards, blue and white endbands, undyed fabric spine lining, Red fabric cover linings. Holes drilled in rear board suggest clasps or ties now missing. Binding fragile, many leaves with water damage, some loss to first and last several leaves. Possibly original, possibly later medieval binding. Provenance: Given by Rev. Herbert M. Allen (Williams 1888) to Henry D. Wild (Williams 1888). Gift of Mrs. H.D. Wild, 21 September 1942.
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