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) 825-4959
Description
Rebound in a non-Armenian manner, probably in the 19th century, Red goatskin over pasteboards, with small gold-tooled border, Spine divided into four panels, gold-tooled with same roll. Center of each panel stamped with a gold-tooled flower. No flap, clasps, or edge coloration. Red and yellow silk endbands with bead on the edge; damaged at head. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Probably sewn on three cords, although oversewing also evident. Front cover has an inscription in Turkish that reads: “Book No. 7 was bound”. The binding is in a good state of preservation, but the codex in general is only in fair condition. Folios are missing at the beginning and end of the book , with many lacunae throughout the text. The codex has suffered some damage from fire and dampness. Folios 2-6 and 355-363 have been misbound. Folios 122-127, 145-146, 148-151, 170-178, 187-188, 199-202, 213-218, 223-224, 229-230, 139-244, 283-284, 293-296, 309-310, 353-354, and 364-365 were inserted to replace missing folios but, except for fol. 187, were left blank. The illustrations in the codex consist of one headpiece (fol. 8) with corresponding initials and marginal palmettes, 16 bird-form initials and 12 marginal birds, tempietti, and trees.The headpiece, with the corresponding bird-form initials A and Ts and the marginal palmette, forms an exuberant, and rather haphazard, ensemble. The basic forms were sketched in uneven lines varying from black to gray, and were filled in with bright washes of blue and red which only approximately follow the lines of thedrawing. Orange is used occasionally.The paired initials and marginalia are equally vigorous, and equally sloppy. Text in bolorgir, written in one column of 17-19 lines. Subtitles in red bolorgir and initials throughout the text in red or magenta erkat’agir. Twenty-eight quires, numbered with the letters of the Armenian alphabet, written in bolorgir in the lower margin of the page. Fols. 336v-337. Principle colophon.Fol. 61v; Fol. 121v; Fol. 322.On endsheet opposite inside back cover, in pencil.
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