Manuscript in Armenian script, dated 1827, with internal reference to Alaghzghats (Elazığ/Mezre, historically associated with Kharpert/Harput in present-day eastern Turkey). Approximately 120 manuscript pages in Armenian ecclesiastical cursive, executed in black ink with rubrication throughout on laid paper. Small portable format (3.5" x 5.5"), finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled dark brown leather over boards, covers with floral roll border and central gilt cruciform device, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. Marbled agate-pattern endpapers in the Ottoman/Turkish Ebru manner.
Opening inscription records the manuscript’s completion or transcription in 1827. Text identified as an Armenian Catholic devotional treatise centered on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with concluding Marian prayers. Written in a practiced and highly legible devotional hand throughout. Final page with concluding ornament and terminal blank leaf.
A remarkably intimate and well-preserved example of early 19th-century Armenian Christian manuscript culture, uniting localized Armenian devotional practice with refined Ottoman bookbinding traditions. The combination of manuscript execution, gilt binding, marbled papers, and portable format strongly suggests a privately commissioned object intended for daily personal devotion.
A handsome and tactile survival from the late Armenian manuscript tradition, produced decades after printing had become well established yet demonstrating the continued prestige of handwritten devotional books within Armenian Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. Bowing to front board. Moderate rubbing and chipping to extremities. 2” open tear to top corner of f.f.e.p. Internally exceptionally clean and fresh for a manuscript of this type.
Manuscript in Armenian script, dated 1827, with internal reference to Alaghzghats (Elazığ/Mezre, historically associated with Kharpert/Harput in present-day eastern Turkey). Approximately 120 manuscript pages in Armenian ecclesiastical cursive, executed in black ink with rubrication throughout on laid paper. Small portable format (3.5" x 5.5"), finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled dark brown leather over boards, covers with floral roll border and central gilt cruciform device, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. Marbled agate-pattern endpapers in the Ottoman/Turkish Ebru manner.
Opening inscription records the manuscript’s completion or transcription in 1827. Text identified as an Armenian Catholic devotional treatise centered on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with concluding Marian prayers. Written in a practiced and highly legible devotional hand throughout. Final page with concluding ornament and terminal blank leaf.
A remarkably intimate and well-preserved example of early 19th-century Armenian Christian manuscript culture, uniting localized Armenian devotional practice with refined Ottoman bookbinding traditions. The combination of manuscript execution, gilt binding, marbled papers, and portable format strongly suggests a privately commissioned object intended for daily personal devotion.
A handsome and tactile survival from the late Armenian manuscript tradition, produced decades after printing had become well established yet demonstrating the continued prestige of handwritten devotional books within Armenian Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. Bowing to front board. Moderate rubbing and chipping to extremities. 2” open tear to top corner of f.f.e.p. Internally exceptionally clean and fresh for a manuscript of this type.
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