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Dum-Tragut, Jasmine · Khachatryan, Ovsanna, 2025
Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 119–143 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); eISSN 3041-5063
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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Gippert, Jost, 2024
Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 11–33 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); eISSN 3041-5063
Using four sample cases, Gippert shows what multispectral imaging can recover from palimpsests held at the Matenadaran. The samples differ physically: an isolated fragment, two flyleaves, and a fully palimpsested codex. The erased Old Armenian undertexts, all in erkatagir script, range from a colophon to Movses Khorenatsi's History of Armenia, Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Commentary on the Psalms, and Irenaeus of Lyon's Against Heresies. He draws out what these recovered layers tell us about the transmission of the texts and the history of the Armenian language.
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Cowe, S. Peter, 2004
Le Muséon, Vol. 117, No. 1-2, pp. 107–129 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.117.1.504579
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, 1990
Le Muséon, Vol. 103, No. 3-4, pp. 237–248 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.103.3.2006092
A codicological study describing two further Armenian manuscripts held in the National and University Library in Jerusalem, extending the published record of Armenian holdings in that collection.
