A catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries

MS. Arm. e. 21

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Nerses of Lambron, 17th-18th cent.

1. f. 1
Incipit: Ով հարք սուրբք և պետք ճշմարտութեան …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 28(b)
Incipit: Ա. նզովեցէք զասողսն մի բնութիւն զքրիստոս զԵւտիքէս, և զԳիոսկորոս …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 33
Incipit: Ա. Ամենայն մեղուցեալք ըսր իւրաքանչիւր յանցանաց …
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 33(b)
Language(s): Armenian

Contains the following proncipal chapters: Considerations upon the orthodox faith of the Church in the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation; Investigation into the Orders of the Church and the alternations made in it; Again, on the alternations intriduced into the Church, and on the dignity and grades of the Clergy; Investigation into the authority of the Fathers who prescribed that the bishops should have their seat in cities and no in monasteries; On the non grades of the Clergy, their functions and garments; Why the priest's dress is of wool, not of linen; On the Divine Sacramanet, and refutation of those who set it at naught; On the power of prayer, which ought to consist of mental activity; What is signified by calling the house of God a church, - the Church a bride, and Christ a bridegroom, etc.; On the significance of the arrangements of the Church.

1. f. 138
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 283(b)
Language(s): Armenian
1. f. 299
Language(s): Armenian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf): 8.5" × 6" × 2.25" in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Written in Nōtrgir script

History

Origin: 18th 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

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

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