UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4974
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Traditional Armenian binding. Damaged brown leather over wooden boards. Blind-tooled borders, but extremely worn. No flap, clasps, or cloth boublures. Traditional raised endbands of blue, red and white silk (?) evident but in poor condition. Edges darkened. Text sewn on three cords, using three V-notches, but board attachment no longer evident. Slips now appear to be adhered between the leather covering and the wooden boards. Both boards have two unused holes near spine where loops would have been attached – these boards must have been reused, because there are now three sewing supports which do not correspond to the two holes in the boards. White cloth spine lining. The binding and some leaves are loose. The book has suffered damage from fire and dampness. Some leaves have been repaired. Fragment I has no illiustrations. Fragment II has three simple initials, all slightly different. Fol. 24 has a tubular abbreviation of Tēr (Lord) drawn in dark brown ink, and shaded in brick red and gray. The initial on fol. 36 is a tubular E drawn in fine lines of black ink matching that of the text, with no other color. Fol. 46v has a simple TR, with fine black outlines, edges with red and blue.Fragment III has seven fine sets of initials (tubular and bird-form) with corresponding marginalia, all elegantly drawn in very fine purple lines, shaded in brown and picked out in red and blue (fols. 50, 61, 66, 73v, 88v, 100, and 104v). Fragments of three Ritual Books, herewith described individually: Fragment I: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 22-26 lines. Subtitles mostly in bolorgir, others in notragir; initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, all in black ink.Fragment II: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 15-18 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, in red ink.Fragment III: Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 20 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir, and initials throughout the text in large erkat’agir, also in red. Fragment I consists of one quire of 10 leaves. The quires of Fragments II and III appear to have had 12 leaves each. Fol. 60v. in lower margin in minuscule bolorgir.Fol. 112v. In lower margin in minuscule bolorgir.Fols. 112v-113, 113v, 113v-114,
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