The "Nazlum Family Medical Book": Codex M11161 and Its "Medical Book on Horses"
Dum-Tragut, Jasmine and Khachatryan, Ovsanna · 2025
Presents the first study of a previously unexamined medical manuscript, Matenadaran codex no. 11161, covering its physical characteristics, provenance, and textual composition. The authors analyze one of its key texts, a book on horses, and compare it with other Armenian medical manuscripts. This lets them date and localize the codex more precisely and situate it in the Armenian medical tradition between medieval Cilicia and early modern Nor Jugha (New Julfa). Khachatryan is based at the Matenadaran; Dum-Tragut heads Armenian Studies at Salzburg.
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Dum-Tragut, Jasmine and Khachatryan, Ovsanna 2025. The "Nazlum Family Medical Book": Codex M11161 and Its "Medical Book on Horses". Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 119–143 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); eISSN 3041-5063.
What this offers a reader
A vivid look at Armenian medieval science, including veterinary medicine, straight from an unpublished manuscript.
Peer-reviewed codicological study; first scholarly treatment of codex M11161.
The Matenadaran's ongoing work of recovering manuscripts scattered from Cilicia to New Julfa.
An unopened Armenian medical manuscript, including a medieval book on treating horses.
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