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Z-^.^if^ \ 4'^' THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES /<? CATALOGI CODD. MSS. BIBLIOTHECAE BODLEIANAE PARS XIV CATALOGE OP THE ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY BY THE REV. SUKIAS BARONIAN AND F. C. CONYBEARE, F.B.A. HON. FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1918 OXFORD UNIVEESITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK » TORONTO MELBOURNE CAPE TOWN BOMBAY HUMPHREY MILFORD PUBLISHER TO THE UKIVEHSITy LIBRARIAN'S NOTE The present Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts the Bodleian Library, one hundred and twenty-four in number, was begun in 1883 by the Rev. Sukias Baronian, who worked at it as opportunity offered until his death in 1904, by which time MSS. 1-63 had been dealt with. In 191 2 Mr. F. C. Conybeare kindly undertook to complete the Catalogue and compile the Indexes, and his services to the Library are gratefully acknowledged. In such a case of dual authorship, spread over thirty-five years, some inconsistencies must inevitably be found. The printing began in 1889 and much of Dr. Baronian 's work was printed off before his death. The text of the whole Catalogue was in print before the end of 1914- The Index of Shelfmarks shows that the first Armenian Manuscripts were received from Archbishop Laud in 1635, and that Dr. Thomas Marshall, Dr. Edward Pococke and Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, with others, contributed to the building up of the Collection. A considerable number also were bought by Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson in the course of his long librarianship, including fifty in the year 1 899. F. MADAN. January, 19 18. 1594 88 — AUTHOR'S PREFACE The following Catalogue is almost wholly the work of my lamented fiiend, Dr. Baronian. About half of it was already printed, when several years after liis death I was asked by Mr. Madan to complete it. In doing so I went through the manuscripts afresh, re-writing or making such corrections in Dr. Baronian's manuscript text as seemed to me to be necessary. In particular I ventured to alter his translitera- tion of certain letters, for I cannot believe that the translators and authors of old Armenia, using as they did the idiom of Ararat, pronounced Paulos as Boghos, Petros as Bedros, Trdat as Drtad, nor was Dr. Baronian always consistent with himself. In general, therefore, I have used the equivalents employed in the great Catalogue of the codices of the Mekhitarists at Viemia, transhterating as B, not . J as y or, at the beginning of a word, as h. as G, not /.•. as sh. as D, not t. as tch. b as e. as df<ch. 1 ss rh or Greek ^ as 0. p. as t, not d. aa e or e. as r. £ as ? or a. p as tz. as th. 3 as 'pii. <f as j or sometimes z. ^ as q. as kh. or o as o or u or aw. *• as dz. as/. as k, not g. I- as V. as ds. ^ as lu, sometimes as v. / as / or sometimes X. - as iv or in according as it comes at end or a as dj. in middle of a word. It would of coux-se have been more satisfactory in some ways to employ, especially for consonants, the scientific symbols invented by comparative philologists and used by Hiibschmann and Marr in their grammars of the language; but such symbols would convey nothing to most students for whose use this Catalogue is intended and to whom I only wished to impart rouglaly and generally what the letter corresponds to in the very inadequate English alphabet. I say roiiglthj^ foi' t^^e same Armenian characters were pronounced very differently in East and West Armenia, especially after the tenth century; and the more unintelligent scribes often wrote the same in word several ways, all equaUy faulty. I therefore entreat the reader not to be censorious, and would say to him in behalf both of my dear old friend Dr. Baronian and of myself Be to our faults a little bhnd And to our virtues very kind. FRED. C. CONYBEAEE. CONTENTS PAGE iii Libraeian's Note . Author's Preface iv Index of Shelfmarks of MSS. vi List op Dated MSS. viii Catalogue 1-254 General Index. Index of Subjects. INDEX OF SHELFMARKS OF MSS. INDEX OF SHELFMARKS OF MSS. vn vm INDEX OF SHELFMARKS OF MSS. CATALOGUE OF ARMENIAN MSS. disputed passages, into the Armenian text is be- lieved to have begun in or soon before the reign MS. Arm. d. 5— Gospels, 12th & 13th centt. of Hethoum II (i 2<S9-i307). If the paper portion Size, Iix7i^ in. Text, 7|x4| in. In two of the MS. is of the J 3th cent., the vellum must be of 1 columns, of 21 lines each. Ff. 325. The volume the 2th cent., for it is no doubt older than the paper part, from the fact that the latter has is formed of two portions : the first is written on been transcribed purposely to complete the vellum (iriental glazed cotton paper, the second (from f. part. This may be concluded from the two pages 257) on vellum. Both parts are written in small where the two transcripts meet together ; the last uncials but by different hands, and in both parts page of the paper finishes with the end of the 29th the quires are marked by letters. Oriental bind- verse of Ch. i. of John, leaving some lines in blank, ing, with traces on the front cover of some metal whilst the vellum part continues with the last word (' of the world ') of the same verse. Besides, the ornaments : there was once a flap, and the volume number of the first quire of the vellum part being was fastened by 3 thongs passing over it from the the letter IP, i.e. the 20th, shows that it had back cover on to 3 studs on the front cover. already a numeration of quires quite independent It contains the four : I Gospels Matthew, f ; of the paper part, which has on the last quire the f. 94*» ; f. Mark, Luke, 155 ; John, f. 255, defective letter (', i.e. the 32nd. from xxi. 14 to the end. At an uncertain date the MS. became the pro- Of the disputed passages there are only the perty of the commune of Urfii, as can be seen from conclusion of Mark and the verses Luke xxii. 43, the following inscription of the impress of a stamp (f. 243*). The narralive of adulteress (in 44 the (ff: 88" and 159) (,)'/| JVilVi, 1„(|('1("1 the vellum part) is omitted, but the margin (f 281) b'lblll(l;5 1865. gives the title of it. The text has the Eusebian This MS. was bought from Mr. Joseph Bayan section with numbers on the margins throughout on Sept. 12, 1883. the whole volume, but the corresponding harmonies at foot of the jagcs oeoir only in the j)aper jiart. There are to be found also the sections for choral use called Pentecostal Lessons, but there are no MS. Arm. d. 3Go8pel8, A.D. 1304. rich initials or marginal ornaments here or else- Oriental cotton paj)er, where. glazed and soft. Size, At the end is a subscription, on vellum, but 9|x6Hn. Text. 7ix4Hn. In two columns, each plainly from the hand of the writer of the first of 23 lines (to f. Ill) or 20 lines (f. 112 seqq.). (paper) jiart. Unfortunately the beginning of this Ff. 298. Writing bold and uniform bolorgir. note is wanting, but we learn from it that ihe Oriental binding, with flap, and silver ornaments writer was a j>riest named Thoros. The two im- and stones on both covers : the volume was at one perfect words S^iui in the moun- [ ^ time fastened by 3 thongs passing from the back tains of Taurus' (words which are the last of a cover on to 3 studs on the front cover, and two of sentence that began on the missing part of this the studs remain. note) also show that the MS. was written in Cilieia. The date of the pajier part can only It (lospcls : be contains the four Matthew, f. 1 6 ; api)roximately fixed : in paper and in the quality Mark, f 93 ; Luke, f 143 ; John, f 232. and form of writing it greatly resembles one of The text omits all the dis]iuted passages. It the Gospels of the British Museum, dated 1181. has the Pentecostal Lessons, with large initials and It must, however, be later, because the introduction arabesques, although not completed, being only of the passage, Luke xxii. 43, 44, as well as other oxdhnc designs in a pale colour. Tho Eusebian B '; — : CATALOGUE OF ARMENIAN MSS. (2-3) 4 section-numbers are noted on the marsjins, but the on the larger silver cross we read the following corresponding- harmonies at foot of the pages are wanting. It has the Euscbian canons at the be- ginning of the volume, with the references on the the year 1 i'^94 a.d.]. This cross is in margins of the test under the section-numbers. 143 [= memorial of Ter lovanes and his wife.' On the The AIS. is remarkable for numerous full-page second cover there are the following four inscrip- pictures, a large prfijiortion of which, as can be tions engraved on different crosses, in different seen from the following list, are placed at the forms of writing, and in coarse spelling : beginning of the volume. 1. f. *. The Annunciation. iri'J'br.ir, i.e.

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