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1. Miscellaneous texts
- Published / Created:
- 1600-1699.
- Call Number:
- Hartford Seminary Armenian MSS 14
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (incomplete) of texts on various religious, devotional, and historical themes. Contents include Kirakos Vardapet, On the eight sacraments, ff. 1r-6v; treatises on gastronomy, adultery, avarice, melancholy, passion, idleness, vainglory, and pride, ff. 6v-42r; Story of the Hermit Macarius and the conversion of the Emir of Nisibis (incomplete), ff. 52r-125r; Story of the Greek emperor Heraclius on the discovery of the Holy Cross, ff. 125r-153r; Story of young Mehmet, ff. 153r-158v; Bishop Methodius, Commentary on the vision of the prophet Daniel, ff. 162r-181v; Victory of the Christians, ff. 181v-196r; Agadon, History of the propitious times when the power of the Armenians increased..., ff. 196v-219v; Miraculous deeds of St. Minas, ff. 220v-231r; Life and martyrdom of the Patriarch St. Cyril of Jerusalem, ff. 266v-284v; Moses of Khoren, Life of St. Hṙip'simē, ff. 284v-293v; and Anania Vardapet, Homily on St. John, ff. 305r-320r
- Description:
- In Armenian., Layout: one column of 15-24 lines., Script: notragir., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: mutilated leather over boards, with striped linen doublures. Two parchment flyleaves at beginning from a 10th-century manuscript, and two paper flyleaves at end from a 12th-century manuscript, both in erkat'agir., Principal colophon wanting. Dating suggested by paleography. An inscription on f. 196r indicates that the manuscript was copied by the scribe Yandrēas., and Some leaves disordered; some missing, including one quire between ff. 51 and 52.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Armenia
- Subject (Name):
- Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386., Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641., Hṛipʻsime, Saint., Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century., Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century., and Armenian Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellaneous texts
2. Sermons
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 369
- Image Count:
- 416
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Sermons in Nahuatl, beginning defectively in the sermon for the second Sunday after Easter, through the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost; material for each Sunday includes a reading from the Epistles with a "Declaracion del testo" and an "Aplicacion del testo," and a reading from the Gospels with the same exegetic material. Some marginal notes in Spanish, 16th century
- Description:
- In Nahuatl and Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Croix Latine 5688., Script: Written in small, even humanistic script, with heavy clubbing of ascenders and descenders., Initials, 2-line, are square capitals done by scribe in brown ink. Headings by scribe in a larger version of humanistic script., Many signs of wear: stains in margin, large water stain running into gutter from f. 110 on, some worm holes in upper and lower margins, but no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case. Edges spattered blue/green.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Central America.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nahuas, Sermons, and Sermons, Nahuatl
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons
