An Armenian Philosophical Compendium Manuscript in Southern California
Cowe, S. Peter · 2004
Describes a significant seventeenth-century Armenian manuscript held by the Der-Boghosian family of Los Angeles, covering binding, scribal colophons, illuminations and preservation. Cowe reviews its contents: chiefly the corpus of David the Invincible, pupil of Olympiodoros at the School of Alexandria, plus subsidiary units of which the most important is the Dialectica of Bartolomeo da Poggio, first Dominican bishop of Maragha in the 1320s and a major conduit of Latin theology to the Armenians. Comparison with similar codices clarifies the manuscript's typology as combining the Armenian inheritance from Late Antique Neoplatonism with medieval Thomist thought, and he reconstructs the manuscript's history from internal and external evidence.
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Cowe, S. Peter 2004. An Armenian Philosophical Compendium Manuscript in Southern California. Le Muséon, Vol. 117, No. 1-2, pp. 107–129 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.117.1.504579. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.117.1.504579
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An Armenian philosophical manuscript sitting in a Los Angeles family's home, and what it turned out to be.
Codicological study demonstrating the scholarly value of privately held diaspora manuscripts.
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A centuries-old Armenian manuscript found in a Los Angeles family's collection.
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