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
