Girk' Ramli - Գիրք Րամլի

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 14185A and B
  • Dates of Creation
    • Late 17th century-19th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Armenian Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 2 items in 2 volumes Two items. Or 14185A. Glazed paper of European origin with watermark 'PB'. 243 folios. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Text in irregular notary's hand in double columns of 31 lines, enclosed in thick double margins painted fuschia. Many pages have been divided into compartments and then left blank: ff.12r-v, 14r-v, 23v-27v, 31r-56v, 68r-74r, 87r-92v, 97v-103v, 106r-109v, 111r-112r, 113r, 114r, 117v-118v, 120v-123v, 127r-134r, 136v-142v, 144r, 149v-150r, 151r-154r, 155v-156r, 157r-160r, 164r-v, 166v, 167v-168r, 175v, 176v-177v, 178v, 179v, 180v-182v, 184r, 194r-v, 197r-200v, 204v, 205v-212r, 214v-218r, 219v-221v, 227v-228r, 234r-243r. In several places, decorations from printed books have been cut and pasted into the manuscript, as on ff.4v, 169r, 185r. Rebound in brown calfskin with flap. Or 14185B. Paper. 54 leaves, plus 3 blank flyleaves at each end. 11.5 x 19.5 cm. A notebook written in notary's hand. 16 lines. Rebound in brown calfskin.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing a treatise on magic, astrology, and divination, as well as flip notebook with notes on the manuscript.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Both items were purchased in 1983 from Alis Robbins, daughter of Nersēs Tigran T'ašchian, originally from Cairo.

Other Finding Aids

For more information, see Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume Two. London: The British Library. pp 1114-1116.

Bibliography

Feydit, Frédéric. 1986. Amulettes des l'Arménie chrétienne. Venice. Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume Two. London: The British Library. pp 1114-1116. Russell, James R. 1987. Zoroastrianism in Armenia. Cambridge, MA. Russell, James R. 1988. 'The Book of the Six Thousand: An Armenian Magical Text', Banber Erevani Hamalsarani I:64, pp. 85-93.