The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This Armenian hymnal was created in the late-seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Although no colophons are recorded in the manuscript, the name of the scribe, Awēt, appears on fol. 11r. This may be the same Awēt whose work is recorded elsewhere in manuscripts produced at the Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan (Iran). The four miniatures depicting Joachim and Anna, Adam and Eve, the Resurrection of Christ, and Pentecost represent familiarity with European pictorial traditions. They appear to have been retouched after the original paint began to flake off. The head-pieces for canon divisions and the marginal decoration are based on earlier Armenian models. The small size of this hymnal suggests that it was used privately when participating in the Armenian liturgy.
Bolorgir
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Thanks are expressed to Professor Bernard Coulie (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) for kindly making available his bibliography on the Armenian manuscripts kept in the Walters Art Museum.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 762, cat. no. 32.
(In Armenian) Tēr-Awetisean, Smbat, and L. G. Minasean. Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the All-Saviour Monastery at New Julfa. 2 vols. Vienna: 1970, 1972; vol. 1, cat. nos. 152, 267, 269, 270, 277, 303, 306, 314, 337, 584; vol. 2, cat. no. 174.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1973; pp. 83-84, cat. no. XI, plates 242-243.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies 16. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976; pp. 332-333, cat. no. 65.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Possibly Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran
Late 17th or 18th century CE
book
Original Binding
Reddish-brown morocco binding over wooden boards (no lining); upper cover had two catches (the lower one is now missing) and lower cover had two leather straps that attached to the catches (both straps are now missing but their stubs remain, along with the four metal pins with imprinted stars that held them in place); upper and lower boards decorated with blind-tooled quatrefoil floral motif in the center and four additional floral motifs in the corners of a rectangular frame; spine is undecorated with four ribs
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Produced in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century, possibly at the Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran, by the scribe Awēt
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Possibly Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran
Late 17th or 18th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Armenian.
Produced in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century, possibly at the Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran, by the scribe Awēt
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased between 1895 and 1931
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
This Armenian hymnal was created in the late-seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Although no colophons are recorded in the manuscript, the name of the scribe, Awēt, appears on fol. 11r. This may be the same Awēt whose work is recorded elsewhere in manuscripts produced at the Monastery of Surb Amenap'rkič in New Julfa, Isfahan (Iran). The four miniatures depicting Joachim and Anna, Adam and Eve, the Resurrection of Christ, and Pentecost represent familiarity with European pictorial traditions. They appear to have been retouched after the original paint began to flake off. The head-pieces for canon divisions and the marginal decoration are based on earlier Armenian models. The small size of this hymnal suggests that it was used privately when participating in the Armenian liturgy.
Bolorgir
Principal cataloger: Der Nersessian, Sirarpie
Principal cataloger: Landau, Amy
Principal cataloger: van Lint, Theo M
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dennis, Nathan S
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Thanks are expressed to Professor Bernard Coulie (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) for kindly making available his bibliography on the Armenian manuscripts kept in the Walters Art Museum.
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 762, cat. no. 32.
(In Armenian) Tēr-Awetisean, Smbat, and L. G. Minasean. Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the All-Saviour Monastery at New Julfa. 2 vols. Vienna: 1970, 1972; vol. 1, cat. nos. 152, 267, 269, 270, 277, 303, 306, 314, 337, 584; vol. 2, cat. no. 174.
Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1973; pp. 83-84, cat. no. XI, plates 242-243.
Sanjian, Avedis K. A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States. University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies 16. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976; pp. 332-333, cat. no. 65.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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