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) 825-4971
Description
Traditional Armenian binding. Dark brown damaged leather over the wooden boards with no tooling. Upper board has vertical gain, and has cracked vertically in two places. Lower board was cut with a horizontal grain and has cracked horizontally. Beige cloth spine lining. No flap or cloth doublures. Fragment of one of two leather thongs used for fastening can be seen on back board, and two holes remain on front where closure pins were once located. Red silk (?) threads at head and tail are the only evidence of endbands. Edges darkened. Textblock has pulled away from spine and warped, but is still attached to boards. Traditional structure using three board attachment loops, but no notches used at sewing stations. The MS is in a fair state of preservation. Many leaves have suffered damage from fire and dampness, but the text is legible throughout. The folios were paginated by the scribe, who, however, inadvertently skipped numbers 64, 65, 77, 97, and 98. Four leaves between the pages 113 and 114 have not been numbered, perhaps because they were later additions. For purposes of this description, these page have been assigned numbers 113a-h. Pages 1-2, 11-14 of the codex are missing. Text in notragir, written in one column of 18 lines. Subtitles in red notragir, and initials of subtitles and opening lines of text in large erkat’agir or notragir in red ink. The quires are not numbered, but the gatherings have 8 leaves each. None.Later inscriptions: Page 61. In crude notragir in lower half of page. Page 103. In modern sheghagir.Page 113h. In crude notragir in lower half of page (same hand as on p. 61).Page 246. In crude bolorgir in lower half of page.
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