Rituals and Prayers, in Armenian, Armenia, Hagopia Monastery, dated 1586

190x150mm, paper, 212 leaves (foliated 1-211, skipping one leaf after f.185, a small strip after f.175, the last two leaves added by another hand), 11 more leaves (following f.211 and foliated again ff.202-213) from another manuscript, one leaf in 2 columns folded into two flyleaves, and FINAL FLYLEAF IN IRON SCRIPT (ERGATAKIR), 16/17 lines in bolorgir, ONE HALF-PAGE GEOMETRIC DESIGN (f.4r), 5 FOLIATE HEADBANDS WITH MARGINAL DECORATION (ff.13, 28v, 52r, 107r, 134r), 18 LETTERS FORMED OF STYLISED FOLIAGE AND OFTEN BIRDS (ff.4r, 13r, 28v, 45v, 52r, 68v, 78r, 84r, 122v, 134r, 149v, 166r, 172v, 175v, 191r, 192r, 200v, 209v), stained throughout, some quires coming lose at beginning, contemporary flap binding of brown tooled leather over wooden boards, metal pins at front and crosses decorated with semi-precious stones on both covers added later, leather straps renewed

 

This manuscript was written by Mshetsi Bishop Adzoor in Caesaria, Cappadocia, and completed for the Hagopia Monastery in 1586.