University of Pennsylvania, LJS 443
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS683
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 443
- Title:
- Collection of texts on the calendar.
- Place:
- Armenia
- Date:
- [after 1416]
- Language:
- Armenian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 258 leaves : paper ; 186 x 135 (120-140 x 95-98) mm bound to 195 x 145 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ōrmanean, Maghakʻia, 1841-1918
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Armenia after 1416 (date of compilation of commentary on the calendar by Hakob Ghrimetsʻi).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a bolorgir script; 19th-century additions (f. 81r).
Layout: Written in 26-37 long lines; ruled in drypoint, with prickings visible on many leaves; vertical bounding lines traced in red ink in some works.
Binding: Blind-tooled calf with patterned fabric lining the covers and the leather flap attached to the lower cover; remnants of straps on lower cover and flap and of catches on upper cover; paper label with inscription in ink on spine.
Collation: Paper, i + 258 + i; 1-5¹² 6⁶ 7⁴(-1) 8-13¹² 14¹⁶(-1) 15¹² 16¹⁰ 17-18¹² 19¹²(-1) 20-21¹² 22¹⁰ 23⁸ 24⁴(-1); 1-167, i, 168-257, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Gatherings have contemporary signatures in ink on the first recto and often on the last verso, lower center. Modern pagination in pencil is also present, upper center or upper outer corners, but pages without...
Decoration: Ornamental headpieces with marginal arabesques in red, blue and brown ink (f. 3r, 131r, 137r, 138r, 145v); diagrams in red ink, most with black text (f. 9r, 23r, 47r, 143r, 144v, 156v, 171r, 192r-203r, 204r-210r, 211r-211v); rubrics in red; some tables ruled in red.
Compiled by order of Abbot T'ovma Medsop'etsi and Hakob Ghrimetsʻi, both Armenian scholars, in or after 1416.
Formerly owned by Maghakʻia Ōrmanean, patriarch of Constantinople and Armenian scholar.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2002.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951496233503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3f76675r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
