Abstract
A handful of Armenian Gospel Books, ranging from the 12th to the early 14th century, refer in their colophons to an exemplar by a certain Grigor Murłanec‘i, “artful scribe and invincible scholar”. Who was this copyist, unknown to any other source, and what were the distinctive features of his manuscript, contributing to its popularity as a “choice and reliable model”? An integrated approach to the manuscript tradition helps answer these questions by taking into account the manuscripts’ iconography, textual peculiarities, and colophons, as well as the historical circumstances surrounding their production. Furthermore, exploring this tradition sheds new light on the Armenian scribal activity in and around Edessa, while also revealing connections between remote copying centres. Such an enquiry highlights the potential of a careful and comprehensive examination of the multifaceted evidence offered by manuscript codices for enriching our knowledge and understanding of cultural networks in Mediaeval and Early Modern Armenia.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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| Keywords: | Armenian manuscripts; colophons; Grigor Murłanecʻi; Gospel books; copying traditions; Edessa; Armenian literature; colophon formulae; codicology, armenische Handschriften; Kolophone; Tetraevangelien; Evangeliare; Abschreibetraditionen; armenische Literatur; Kolophonformel; Kodikologie; Buchwissenschaft, manuscrits arméniens; tétraévangiles; traditions de copie; Édesse; littérature arménienne; formules de colophon; codicologie, հայերեն ձեռագրեր; հիշատակարաններ; Գրիգոր Մուրղանեցի; Ավետարաններ; գրչության ավանդույթներ; Ուռհա; Եդեսիա; հայ գրականություն; հիշատակարանային բանաձևեր; ձեռագրագիտություն |
| Faculties: | Protestant Theology > Institute of Church History |
| Subjects: | 000 Computer science, information and general works > 090 Manuscripts and rare books 200 Religion > 220 Bible 800 Literature > 890 Other literatures 900 History and geography > 950 History of Asia |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 71935 |
| Date Deposited: | 25. Jan 2021, 12:15 |
| Last Modified: | 25. Jan 2021, 12:15 |
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