Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 8vo in quires of 12, q5^9. Signatures in Armenian fashion, at middle of lower margin at beginning and end of each quire. No catchwords or pagination., Script: Armenian book script., Decoration: Large Rubricated initials extending 5 lines., Binding: Original binding, 18th century (?) Brown morocco over wood boards with covers embellished with 3 concentric panels. Spine shows 3 raised bands going into the wood board. On watermarked paper, browned and water-stained at top corners., This article has been described as a treatise on grammar, in Armenian by Stchonghaetzi, from 1725.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 8vo in quires of 12, q5^9. Signatures in Armenian fashion, at middle of lower margin at beginning and end of each quire. No catchwords or pagination., Script: Armenian book script., Decoration: Large Rubricated initials extending 5 lines., Binding: Original binding, 18th century (?) Brown morocco over wood boards with covers embellished with 3 concentric panels. Spine shows 3 raised bands going into the wood board. On watermarked paper, browned and water-stained at top corners., This article has been described as a treatise on grammar, in Armenian by Stchonghaetzi, from 1725.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 44 quires, first ^4, last ^7. Missing final page. 3 hands of an unknown script. Quires are numbered at beginning recto and final verso in lower margin. Marginal notes., Script: The initial hand seems to consist of late-middle Armenian. Other hands seem to reflect the same, though with less certainty due to clarity and personality of their cursive. Read from Left to Right., Decoration: Emphasized red and black initials throughout. Upper edge engraved with key/anchor shape. Rubrication, indicating chapters, with an emphasized capital., Binding: Rich brown morocco over wood board dressed with linear etching along front and back cover, with 3 lines making an X across each face. Buttons from former hasps visible on cover.
Manuscript of a medieval epic poem, containing segments of the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange., Initials in gold and colors., Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England., Hernaut de Beaulande (folios 1a-35a) -- Renier de Gennes (folios 35a-46b) -- Girart de Vienne (folios 47a-83b) -- Galiens li restorés (folios 83b-135b) -- La Chronique de Saint-Denis (folios 137a-224a)
This bifolium preserves two pages of a liturgical Pentateuch, or humash, containing the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Aramaic translation of the Targum, alternating verse by verse, with the grammatical notes of the Masora parva between the columns. Despite the losses sustained from its later use as binding scrap, this item is mostly intact., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet of 2 leaves (4 pages)., Origin: Germany?, Layout: Double column, 34 lines., Script: written in a square script., Decoration: None., Annotations: A few marginal notations and a line of text in Italian in a later hand., Disbound; manuscript binding waste recovered from a binding and therefore quite browned and with the text on the one side of the sheet obscured (but legible) by binder's glue; small losses to the gutter and the corners filled with modern paper.