Gospels
Dated to the tenth century, this manuscript is the oldest Armenian codex in North America and the fifth oldest among documented Armenian Gospel Books. The principal colophon on fol. 2v records that Sargis the Priest completed the text in 415 [966 CE]. Within the framed area, t...
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Created by Sargis for the church of Rzner, Armenia (?) [1], 966. Priest Hakob and family, Yerevan, Armenia, 1575, by purchase. Yovhannes Amirxanean, 1839, [location and mode of acquisition unknown]. Hovannes Amirkan, 1843, [location and mode of acquisition unknown]. Yovhannes Amirxaneanc‘, Tabriz, Iran, 1844, [mode of acquisition unknown]. Ala Amirxane Yovhannes Amireanc‘, Nor-Djudha, Armenia (modern Julfa, Azerbaijan), 1844, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Monastery of San Gregorio (St. Gregory), Rome, Italy, 1844, by donation; Monastery of the Antonian Fathers, Ortakeuy, near Istanbul, Türkiye, 1870, by transfer [2]. Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] Location not identified.[2] Seen at the monastery in 1909 by M. Frederic Macler. The location of the manuscript is unknown between 1909 and 1931, and it may have been removed from Armenian territory during the late 19th century Armenian massacres, World War I, or the Armenian Genocide.
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