New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian

September 28, 2015 in Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition, Reports

Into Place

A Pair of Leaves Identified, Described, Collated,
and Set into the Context of its Manuscript

[First published on 28 September 2015, with updates.
In our series of blogposts on Manuscript Studies, Mildred Budny sets the stage for an illustrated Report available for download here.
News Flash: With her discovery in November 2016 of another leaf from the same manuscript, please watch for a further Update in a coming blogpost.]

As part of the process of exhibiting images from manuscripts, documents, and other written materials — for example in our Galleries of Scripts on Parade and Texts on Parade, and in our Reports on Manuscript Studies — we offer a Report on ‘Two Detached Manuscript Leaves containing New Testament Texts in Old Armenian’ by our Associate, Leslie J. French.

Booklet ‘On Demand’

This Report is available below for download as PDF. In the form of a booklet, it presents its materials laid out in the official font of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Bembino, a multilingual digital font (which you see on this website), and in accordance with the principles of our Style Manifesto. Such an approach resembles the presentation of our Newsletter ShelfMarks in booklet form, likewise available freely for download — as are the Style Manifesto and the descriptive booklet, with specimens, for Bembino. The font itself is also FREE for download here (now in Version 1.3).

The Report examines and illustrates two detached leaves in Old Armenian which came to our attention when preparing their presentation among other specimens in various languages in our Gallery of Scripts on Parade. Then, identifying the passages of text and the elements of textual apparatus on the leaves proceeded hand in hand with an exploration of the available evidence, or records, for other parts of the same manuscript dispersed in several collections. Designing Armenian characters, lowercase and uppercase, for Bembino (in its next version, still in progress, responding to requests) allowed for the collation of the texts in full, as an aid to decipherment for readers who may be unfamiliar with the language or the medieval script forms. And so the booklet took shape. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Armenian Manuscripts, Bembino Digital Font, Bible Manuscripts, Bolorgir script, Edgar J. Goodspeed Manuscript Collection, Epistle to the Romans, Euthalian Apparatus, Goodspeed MS 229, Goodspeed MS 773, Harry Kurdian, Manuscript studies, Medieval Manuscript Collecting, Mekhitarian Monastery of San Lazzaro, New Testament Manuscripts, Philosophical Research Library MS Arm. 3, Wellcome Library Armenian MS 1
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2016 Congress Planning

September 16, 2015 in Conference Announcement, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies

12–15 May 2016

With the completion of the 2016 Congress Call for Papers by 15 September 2015, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence plans the shape of its 4 sponsored and co-sponsored sessions for the next International Congress on Medieval Studies, to take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. The programs for our sessions now settle into place after their notification to the Congress by the deadline of 1 October. In time, we will be able to announce the programs and, as their authors might wish, publish abstracts of the papers.

The next Congress will be the eleventh year of our co-sponsorship with the Societas Magica, the third year of co-sponsorship with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, and the second year of co-sponsorship with the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. Our 2014 and 2015 sessions and receptions with these organizations are illustrated in the 2014 Congress Report and 2015 Congress Report. The history of our co-sponsorships at the Congress is surveyed in Co-Sponsored Congress Sessions.

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Tags: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida, Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, Societas Magica
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Manuscript Studies

September 13, 2015 in Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition

Manuscript Studies, Documents Included

Detail of an initial M on the verso of the leaf. Photography © Mildred Budny

Initial M for “Manus” (“Hand”)

In 2015, we began our series of blogposts on ‘Manuscript Studies’, reporting and illustrating a variety of manuscripts, fragments, and documents. Mostly these materials belong to different owners who allow us to study them long-term and report the research results. We thank them for their generosity and trust.

Manuscript Studies take time. It’s not the only way, but it is a good way. (Whatever Works, Right?)

Some of us dedicate our time and effort to it. You know, I have dedicated my life to it. Not sure that it was the right thing (the Memoirs will be right interesting, and time will tell, not done yet), but the quest continues both to challenge and inspire. Plus the responses to the blogposts give further inspiration.

A list of links for some of the first posts in this series has appeared here:

Manuscripts On My Mind, Number 16 (September 2015), page 12.

Contents List

The fuller Contents List is here, as it evolves. Here we note the unfolding series.

Photography © Mildred Budny

“Show & Tell” Seminar on Manuscripts & Their Photographs
A Seminar at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University
(With a Preview of a Despoiled Book of Hours Recently Discovered in France, shown here at the left)

The ‘Foundling Hospital’ for Manuscript Fragments
The Case of a Favorite Manuscript, Ripped Up, Alas, by the Center That Made It, but Thank Goodness They Left Something to Tell the Tale

Lost and Foundlings
The Sellers’ Tells, Sadly

Manuscript Groupies
Light-Hearted View of Group Portraits, when it comes to Manuscripts and Their Best Sides, Photo Ops Included

Curiouser and Curiouser
A Most Strange Seal on a Paper Document of A.D. 1345, Old Style, from Grenoble

Document in 5 lines on paper, dated 22 February 1345 (Old Style), with red wax seal. Image reproduced by permisison.

‘Curiouser and Curiouser’

Scrap of Information
A Puzzling Fragment from a French Charter with the Date, Maybe Accurate, of 1538

Full Court Preston
A Pair of 13th-Century Documents from Preston, Near Ipswich, in Suffolk

Notarial Roll of 1305 from Cesena
A Complete Documentary Scroll from Emelia-Romagna in North-East Italy, with Notarial Sign and Signature

A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 41’
Part of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great and Other Texts from a Manuscript Plundered in World War I

Initial S for 'Salue' on the verso of the Processional leaf. Photography by Mildred Budny

S for ‘Salue’ in ‘Otto Ege MS 8’

A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 61’
Ezekiel from a 32-Line Vulgate Pocket Bible from France

A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 8’
Latin Processional for Palm Sunday for Singing Nuns

A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 14’
Part of the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
from a 50-line Vulgate Latin Lectern Bible with Splendid Decoration and Illustration, as Once Was

More Leaves from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 51’
Detached Leaves from Ege’s Erfurt Manuscript of 1365 CE of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
in Latin Translation on Paper

The Mass of Saint Gregory, Illustrated
A Leaf from a 15^th-Century Prayerbook

A Leaf from the Office of the Dead
A Single Leaf, Trimmed Down in Spoliation, to Produce a Decorated Tidbit on Its Own

Detail of recto of Lectionary Leaf with initial T and later scribbles. Photograph © Mildred Budny. Reproduced by permission.

Lectionary with Gregory’s Homily 38 on the Gospel of Mark

Leaf from a Tiny Book of Hours
Leaf from within the Hours of the Virgin from an Unknown Manuscript

Three Leaves from a Latin Religious Pocket Handbook
Three Discontinuous Leaves from Diverse Treatises
including Eadmer’s “Treatise on the Conception of the Virgin Mary”

Part-Leaf from a Large-Format Lectionary
Parts of I Maccabees 10 and Homily XXXVII on the Gospels by Gregory the Great

Written in the Stars
Roman Breviary Fragment with Latin Lections on Astrology from Sermons by Patristic Authors
Plus a Prayer for the Dead

Spoonful of Sugar
A Reused Medieval Bifolium from a Latin Treatise on Medicinal Substances

Justinian Wrapper Closed from Front with Extended Tie.Photography © Mildred Budny.

Folder from Front

It’s A Wrap
Laying Down the Law
A Leaf from the Novellae Constitutiones of the Emperor’s “Novels”, Numbers 159.2 and 134.1-3
Plus Embellishments

A Reused Part-Leaf from Bede’s Homilies on the Gospels
A Part-Leaf from a 14th-Century Large-Format Copy of Bede’s Homilies on the Gospels in Double Columns of 26 or More Lines
Perhaps Made in France

A Part-Leaf from the “Life of Saint Blaise”
Part of a Leaf from the Saint’s “First” Life in a Lectionary Reused as Binding Material

Cover-Up
A Medieval Bifolium from a Medium-Format Latin Psalter Reused as the Cover of the Binding of an 19th-Century Paper Notebook
With Receipts in French

New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian
Detached Leaves with Parts of the Acts of the Apostles and Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
With a Downloadable Booklet

More to come . . .

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A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 14’

September 6, 2015 in Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition

Part of the ‘Interpretation of Hebrew Names’
from a 50-line Lectern Bible
in the Vulgate Version

Budny, Handlist Number 9
A Leaf From ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 14’

Alcath – Ananias in the A-Group
From the Interpretationes Hebraicorum Nominum
In the partly alphabetized Version beginning Aaz Apprehendens (or a Variant thereof)
At the end of a large-format Bible used for lectern reading

Circa 312 × 212 mm <written area circa 225 × 157 mm >
Triple Columns of 50 lines written in Gothic Formata bookhand

Produced probably in Flanders or Northern France, circa 1325

In our series on Manuscript Fragments, Mildred Budny examines some leaves dispersed into various collections, both private and public, through the methods of Otto F. Ege. Earlier posts on those leaves considered Lost and Foundlings, A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 41’, and A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 8’. Later posts considered A New Leaf from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 61’ and New Leaves from ‘Otto Ege Manuscript 51’.

Now we focus on a large-format leaf which, despite its relatively unembellished contents, formerly belonged to a large-format single-volume Bible amply endowed with decoration, illustrations, and glittering gold.

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Tags: 'Aaz-Apprehendens' Version, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Bible Manuscripts, Budny Handlist, Gothic Manuscripts, Interpretationes Hebraicorum Nominum, Lectern Bible, Otto Ege Manuscript 14, Otto Ege's Manuscripts, Parke Bernet Galleries, Sothebys
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