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) 825-4965
Description
Traditional Armenian binding of worn dark brown leather over wooden boards cut with a vertical grain. No tooling discernible. A vertical section of upper right corner of upper board is missing. No flap. Two holes on each board are evidence of fastening system, now wanting. Fragmentary raised endbands. Fragments of paper pastedowns. Edges darkened. Traditional board attachment using three loops. Sewn with red silk thread, no notches. Some sewing holes apparently no longer used; must have been rebound. Beige cloth spine lining. Fairly good state of preservation. There are leaves missing at the beginning and end of the book. In the likelihood, fols. 65-71 did not originally belong to the codex. The only surviving illumination is a very badly-damaged palmette and corresponding bird-form initial (fol. 60v). The gold which outlined the traditional leaf and bird forms survives, along with smudged patches of blue, purple, green, and orange pigment. Text in minuscule bolorgir, written in one column of 18 lines. The nine calendrical tables at the beginning of the codex are in black and red bolorgir, and the initials of the titles in each column are in red or blue erkat’agir. Subtitles throughout the text are in red bolorgir, with the initials of the subtitles in red erkat’agir. Seven quires with gatherings of 10 or 12 leaves; all except the last two quires are numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bolorgir in the lower margin of the page.
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