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MS. Marsh 85

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Poems of Nerses IV, etc., 17th cent.

1. f. 9
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: The scriptural elegy
Incipit: Յիսուս որդի հաւր միածին...
Language(s): Armenian
2. f. 100(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Profession of faith
Title: Բան հաւատոյ
Incipit: Խոստովանիմ ա՟ծ ըզհայր...
Language(s): Armenian
3. f. 138
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Moral maxims, in alphabetical stanzas
Incipit: Այբն Աստուծոյ զքէզ մերձակայ...
Language(s): Armenian
4. f. 145(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Profession of faith, in alphabetical quatrains
Incipit: Այբն անսկիզբն ասէ զԱ՟ծ...
Language(s): Armenian
5. f. 149(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Moral precepts to schoolboys, in alphabetical quatrains
Incipit: Այբն առաջին ըզքեզ տղայ...
Language(s): Armenian
6. f. 153(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Alphabetical subscription to the copy of the Proverbs of Solomon made by the same author
Incipit: Աստուածեղէն հոգւովն ի սմա...
Language(s): Armenian
7. f. 157(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: On Solomon
Incipit: Սա մարքարէ աստուածաբան...
Language(s): Armenian
8. f. 159
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: On heaven and its order
Incipit: Իմ եղական գոլով բնութիւն եւ սկզբնական...
Language(s): Armenian
9. f. 168
Author: Nerses, of Lambron, Saint, 1153 - 1198 (Lambronac'i, Nersēs)
Title: A metrical panegyric on Nerses Clayetzi, by Nerses of Lambron
Incipit: Շարժեալ ստիպէ հարկ տէրունի...
Language(s): Armenian
10. f. 192
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Penitential Hymn, alphabetically arranged, by nerses Clayetzi
Incipit: Աշխարհ ամենայն...
Language(s): Armenian
11. f. 193(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Supplicatory morning hymn, alphabetically arranged, by the same
Incipit: Առաւօտ լուսոյ...
Language(s): Armenian
12. f. 195(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Supplicatory verses to the Holy Trinity, alphabetically arranged, by the same
Incipit: Աստուած անեղ անհասական Հայր գըթութեանց ինձ ողորմեա...
Language(s): Armenian
13. f. 196(b)
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: Moral precepts to young monks, in alphabetical order, by the same
Incipit: Ամենայինի սկիզբն ես եմ...
Language(s): Armenian

Wanting all after the half stanza which begins with the letter Տ.

14. f. 203
Author: Shnorhali, Nersēs, 1102 - 1173 (Šnorhali, Nersēs)
Title: an astronomical and meteorological treatise in verse
Incipit: Ապոլիաւդ հողմն բարի Արեւ անձրեւ ի միասին...
Language(s): Armenian

Wanting the beginning.

15. f. 207
Author: Ter Arackel Sunetzi
Title: A poem on the loss of Paradise
Title: Ադամգիրք
Incipit: Էր փառք դրախտին անպատմելի Զըքնաղատես եւ սըխրալի...
Language(s): Armenian
16. f. 312(b)
Author: Ter Arackel Sunetzi
Title: Alphabetical verses in praise of and addressed to the Virgin, by the same (?)
Incipit: Այբէն մինչ ի Քէն գովիս դու յինէն...
Language(s): Armenian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf): 6.5" × 4.875" in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Written in Bolorgir script

History

Origin: 17th cent.

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS. was bequeathed by Archbishop Marsh in 1713.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Baronian, Sukias, Rev.; Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis); Catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts in the Bodleian Library; Oxford, at the Clarendon Press 1918

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Funding of Cataloguing

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