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Nerses IV's Commentary on Matthew, etc., 17th cent.

1. f. 2
Author: Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102 - 1173
Title: Sermon on the grade and the staff of Vardapets, on text Ps.CX.2.
Incipit: Թէ վասն ե՛ր գաւազանն զարդարելոյն արտաքս բերէ: Պխ. վասն բազում պատճառաց. նախ զի …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 8
Author: Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102 - 1173
Title: Explanation of the framework of the Eusebian Canons of Gospels.
Title: Մեկնութիւն խորանաց աւետարանին.
Incipit: Մատեանք ա՟ծագիծք և հոգէբուղխ վդ՟տութի՟ք իմաստից …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 13
Author: Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102 - 1173
Title: 'From the ecclesiastical history;, dealing with the question, Why the Gospels are written, and how?
Incipit: Առաքեալք բ՟ժան և այլ աշակերտք հբ՟ …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 15
Author: Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102 - 1173
Title: Commentary on Matthew, by Nerses Shnorhali, with the continuation by John of Erzenka.
Incipit: Սրիոյ զաւրութիւն գերազանց է քան զբնութիւն, և այն քան մինչ զի մոռացումն առնել տկարութեան …
Language(s): Armenian

This commentary, being mostly an abridged compilation of John Chrysostom, is divided like its original in the Armenian translation, into four books, and curiously the titles of theses division in this MS bear the name, not of John of Erzenka, but of St. John Chrysostom.

1. f. 214
Author: Matthew Vardapet
Title: Commenrary on the six days of the Creation, by Matthew Vardapet
Incipit: Սքանշելի են գործք ƒո և անձն իմ սիրեաց յոյժ …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 280
Author: Matthew Vardapet
Title: On eight evil thoughts, by Matthew Vardapet, compuled from the Doctrine [Antirrheticus] of Evagrius Ponticus, 'who is called the Mind of the deser, and from his follower St. Nilus'.
Language(s): Armenian

Contains: On Gluttony; On Fornication; On Avarice; On Sadness; On Wrath; on Melancholy; On Vainglory; On Pride. It ends with a memorial of the author, telling that he has finished 'this compendium in the inner hermitage (անապատ) of Tantzapharakh' (Տանծափարախ) in Siunik, East Armenia, in 1393.

1. f. 303
Author: Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102 - 1173
Title: An epitome on Genesis
Title: Յաղագս արարածոց համառօտ
Incipit: Արար ա՟ծ զմարդն ի պատկեր իւր …
Language(s): Armenian

It deals with some quesions per saltum, beginning from the creation of man, and extending as far as the New Testament. All in form of question and answer.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf): 7.625" × 6" in.

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Written in Nōtrgir script

History

Origin: 17th cent.

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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