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Two Armenian manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. First Manuscript*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2017

VREJ NERSESSIAN
VREJ NERSESSIAN*
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Formerly of the British Library, vrej.nersessian@ntlworld.com
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Armenian Manuscipt of the Pauline Letters with Euthalian material and the Apocraphal Letter of the Corinthians to St Paul and the 3rd Letter of Paul to the Corinthians, Akner (Cilicia) dated 1246.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 341 - 357
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2017 

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Footnotes

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In 2012 the British Library published the author's: A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections in other libraries in the United Kingdom, 2 vols. Thirteen collections were included in the catalogue but unfortunately the two manuscripts of the Royal Asiatic Society were not detected. I am grateful to the editorial board of the Royal Asiatic society Journal for accepting the descriptions of these two manuscripts for publication’.

References

1 R.A.S. Register of Donations April 1823 to March 1831. In the Society's archives there is a description in French of the manuscript on ruled paper entitled ‘Notice sur le manuscript armenien de la R. Societe Asiat. de Londres partant le no.443’ signed S. B. Londres 22 Oct. 1873. The initials S. B. placed in a circle belong to Rev. Sukias Baronian(1831-1910), who had catalogued the Armenian manuscript in the British Museum, the Bodleian Library and John Ryland's Manchester. For his biography See Nersessian, Vrej, A catalogue of the Armenian manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections in other libraries in the United Kingdom (London, 2012), I, pp. 1–5 Google Scholar.

2 Sanjian, A. K., Colophons of Armenian manuscripts, 1301-1480. A source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass., 1969), pp. 8–9 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 «Եկեղեաց գաւառ» is located in Great Armenia (Greek: Archilisene; Latin:Acilisinae) now corresponding to the region of Erzincan in E. Anatolia. See Հայաստանի եվ հարակից շրջանների տեղանունների բառարան, (ed.) Hakobyan, T. Kh. and others (Erevan, 1988), ii, pp. 177–178 Google Scholar.

4 «Աւագ վանք» (variant «Աւաք») Monastery in the canton of Ekegheats or Daranagheats, also called ‘St Apostles’ Monastery’ or ‘Monastery of St T'adeos the Apostle’ See Հայաստանի, ibid., I, pp. 354-355.

5 Boase, T. S. R., (ed.), The Cilician Kingdom of Armenia (Edinburgh and London, 1978), pp.1–33 Google Scholar; and ‘Gazetteer’, pp. 145-185; ‘Rulers of Cilician Armenia’, p.186.

6 Mat'evosyan, A. S., Հայերեն ձեռագրերի հիշատակարաններ ԺԳ դար (Erevan, 1984), no. 193, pp. 238–239 Google Scholar.

7 «Սաղմոսավանք» Monastery in the canton of Aragadsotn in yArarat province. Founded in 1215 by Vatche ‘Prince of Princes’ the founder of the Vatchaturian Princely dynasty. Large number of manuscripts have survived copied in the scriptorium of the Monastery, the most famous being the Lectionary of 1185-88 by the scribes Markos and Mkhit'ar. See Հայաստանի, ibid., iv, pp. 482-483.

8 Ormanian, M., Ազգապատում (Beirut, 1961), III, Bk,1, pp. 3377–3626 Google Scholar; Eritsian, A. G., Ամենայն Հայոց կաթողիկոսութիւնը եւ Կովկասի Հայք XIX դարում:Մասն Ա (1800-1832 թ)(Tiflis, 1894), pp. 47–653 Google Scholar.

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11 F. C. Conybeare, ‘On the Codex Pamphili and date of Euthalius’,The Armenian Church, Ibid., p. 503.

12 Vardanian, H. A., Մատենագրութիւնք Եւթաղի.Քննութիւն եւ բնագիր (Vienna, 1930)Google Scholar.

13 F. C. Conybeare, ’ On the Codex Pamphili and date of Euthalius’, Ibid, p. 513.

14 Chahe Adjemian, «Եւթաղեան կազմածը» in Grand catalogue, Ibid., pp. lxxxi-lxxxv; Willard, Louis Charles, A critical study of the Euthalian Apparatus, Dissertation, (Yale, 1970)Google Scholar.

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16 F. C. Conybeare, ‘The authorship of the last verses of Mark’ and ‘On the last twelve verses of St Mark's Gospel’, The Armenian Church, Ibid., pp. 163-171 and pp. 172-183; J. E. Snapp. The origin of Mark 16:9-20 (Tipton, Indiana, 2007), pp. 71-75, Appendix C ’ Armenian MS Ejmiadzin 229 (from ad 989), p.129.; Vrej Nersessian, The Bible in the Armenian Tradition, cf. British Library MS.Add.21,932,fl.118v-119r. pp. 9-10.

17 «Յայտնութիւն Յովհաննու» in Chahe Adjemian, Grand catalogue, Ibid., pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi. For a critical text of the Armenian version see Freterik, Murad', Յայտնութիւն Յովհաննու Հին հայ թարգմանութիւն (Jerusalem, 1905-1911)Google Scholar.

18 Vrej Nersessian, The Bible in the Armenian Tradition, Ibid. ,’Appendix 2 & 3 ’Recensions of the Armenian Bible’, pp. 82-88.

19 ‘Corinthians, Third Epistle to the’ in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, (ed.) Cross, F. L. and Livingstone, E. A., 3rd edition, (Oxford, 2003), pp. 431–432 Google Scholar.

20 Աստուածաշունչ Մատեան Հին եւ Նոր Կտակարանաց. . .յաշխատասիրութենէ Տեառն Հայր Յովհաննու Զոհրապեան (Venice,1805);Գիրք Աստուածաշունչք Հին եւ Նոր Կտակարանց ըստ միաբան վաղեմի գրչագրաց մերոց եւ Յոյն բնագրաց [Arsen Bagratuni's edition], (Venice, 1860); Cf. Vrej Nerses Nersessian, A catalogue of Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library, Ibid., Lectionaries, SOAS Ms.41463 (Crimea 1472), British Library Ms.Or.15291(Crimea 1631-32), ii, pp. 604-635.

21 Vrej Nersessian, The Bible in the Armenian Tradition, Ibid., p.29.

22 Augustin Szekula, Die Reihenfolge der Bucher des Neuen Testamentes bei den Armeniern (Vienna, 1949), pp. 31-35. Klien, A. F. J., ‘The Apocryphal correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians’ Vigiliae Christianae xvii (1963), pp. 2–23 Google Scholar.

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26 A. D. Eretseants, Ամենայն Հայոց Կաթողիկոսութիւնը, Ibid., i, pp. 289-196.

27 Nersessian, Vrej, ‘The Encyclical from Ep'rem,Catholicos of Armenia to Sir Gore Ouseley,3 August 1813 (MS.Or.15,957) ’ Haykazean Hayagitakan Handes (Beirut, 2007), pp. 343–360 Google Scholar; J.Reynolds, Biographical notices of Persian poets: with critical and explanatory remarks by the late Right Honourable Sir Gore Ouseley to which is prefixed a Memoir of the late R .Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley (London, 1846), pp. ccxii-cxiii.

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