A catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries

MS. Arm. e. 30

Oriental Manuscripts

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Apocrypha of the O.T., 13th cent.

1. f. 80
Incipit: Եւ այս են ծնունդք Յակոբայ. Յովսէփ եաւթնուտասնամեայ էր …
Language(s): Armenian

A free compilation of the Bible, with some insertions. The history as it proceeds falls into two subdivisions (ff. 88 and 92(b)), both having the same strange title of Եւթն վահանգի (?). The first three folios (ff. 80-83) are in a later hand.

2. f. 111
Incipit: Եւ եղեւ յամին առաջնումն յևթն ամանց լրութեանցն յամսեանն առաջնումն …
Language(s): Armenian

cf. Lord Curzon's Arm. MSS., no 1 (Bible), ff. 37(b)-44, published at Venice from a text somewhat different from our MS. French trans by A. Carrière, in the 'Nouv. Mél. orient.' (Paris, 1886), pp. 471-511. Eng. trans. by J. Issaverdenz in the 'Uncanonical Writings of the O.T., etc.' (Venice, 1901), pp. 92-162.

3. f. 169
Language(s): Armenian

Defective at end, our copy contains only the Testaments of Simeon, Levi, Joseph, Benjamin, and Juda. The last three leaves are supplied by a later hand in bad notrgir. (Cf. Lord Curzon's Arm. MSS., no. 1, ff. 24-37. - Issaverdenz, l.c., pp. 351-479.).

4. f. 2
Incipit: Որ էրն ի սկզբանէ ա՟ծ բանն վասն բարւոյն գոյացոյց …
Language(s): Armenian
5. f. 216
Incipit: Դշխոյն. ասէ. Զի՞նչ է ա՟ծն քո և ու՞մ նման է …
Language(s): Armenian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Dimensions (leaf): 8.5" × 6" × 2.125" in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Written in Bolorgir script

History

Origin: 13th 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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