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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3486

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.199

Title:

Hymnal; in Armenian

Hymnal

Place:

Armenia?

Armenia

TGN

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

arm

Armenian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, ill., music

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 384 leaves : paper, ill., music ; 122 x 87 (87 x 52) mm bound to 13 cm in box 15 cm

Former Owner(s):

La Bibliofila

Libreria la Bibliofila Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Armenian with music in interlinear khaz notation.
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
Origin: Likely written in Armenia in the 16th century.
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.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in Dec. 1955 from La Bibliofila, Via Manzoni 21, Milano (their label on pastedown)
Call number: MS q Med.199.
Former call number: MS 1564 (label inside flap).
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)

Keyword:

Clasps

Inscriptions

Flap bindings

Dates (Provenance)

Cloth bindings

illuminations (paintings)

Calf bindings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Armenia

Manuscripts, Armenian

Booksellers' labels