Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library

Cowe, S. Peter · 1994

Catalogues 25 full Armenian manuscripts, one in Armeno-Turkish and two vellum fragments. Though the collection originates in the eighteenth century, it is mainly constituted by small bequests and purchases from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume's detailed description of each codex greatly expands on Ellis's 1926 handlist. The holdings are representative of Armenian book arts, comprising ecclesiastical genres for scriptural, liturgical and didactic use, ranging from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries: about half dating to the seventeenth century as commissions displaying merchant munificence. Roughly four-fifths show some illumination.

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