Armenian Manuscripts

Author : Thomas F. Mathews
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Design
ISBN : 0691037515

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Treasures in Heaven by Thomas F. Mathews Pdf

For over a thousand years the pre-eminent expression of Armenian culture was the illuminated manuscript--above all, the illustrated Gospel Book. Brilliantly painted and often bound in silver and decorated with jewels, these volumes constitute the principal source of information on the history, religion, language, and art of Armenia. Treasures in Heaven is the first comprehensive introduction in English to the art and history of Armenian manuscript painting. It reveals the degree to which this art form embodies a distinctively Armenian aesthetic and religious experience. Eighty-eight of the most significant examples of Armenian manuscript illumination are reproduced and extensively discussed in the catalog. Essays by a team of international scholars examine each of the principal schools and periods of Armenian illumination--from the earliest surviving works of the seventh century to manuscripts produced by the Armenian Diaspora communities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chapters on the history and religion of Armenia place illuminated manuscripts within the broader context of Armenian culture. The distinctive techniques and materials of Armenian manuscript painting and bookbinding are also explained. Contributors to this volume include Helen C. Evans, Nina G. Garsoian, Thomas F. Mathews, Krikor H. Maksoudian, Sylvie L. Merian, Mary Virginia Orna, and Alice Taylor.

Author : Avedis Krikor Sanjian,University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0520097920

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Medieval Armenian Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles by Avedis Krikor Sanjian,University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections Pdf

This catalog contains detailed descriptions of ninety-one items in the Armenian Manuscript Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the University Research Library of the University of California, Los Angeles. Acquired by the library in 1968 from Dr. Garo Owen Minasian, the collection includes manuscripts of ecclesiastical character as well as theological and philosophical works, medical treatises, and anthologies of poetry.

Author : Michael E. Stone
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9042916443

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Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Armenian Studies: Armenian manuscripts, textual studies, and Holy Land by Michael E. Stone Pdf

These volumes comprise a collection of papers by Michael E. Stone, written over a period of 35 years. Stone is a leading scholar in two different fields of research, the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Armenian Studies. So this collection includes essays relating to the origins and nature of the Apocryphal literature and its relationship with the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as more specific studies devoted to themes that have interested Stone throughout his career, including Messianism, 4 Ezra, Adam and Eve, and Aramaic Levi Document. His Armenian interests have embraced the Armenian Biblical text, Armenian pilgrimage to and presence in the Holy Land and Armenian paleography and epigraphy. Papers included in the volumes, some of which were originally published in obscure venues, touch on all these themes. A number of previously unpublished papers are included.

Author : Thomas F. Mathews,Roger S. Wieck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040624325

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Treasures in Heaven by Thomas F. Mathews,Roger S. Wieck Pdf

For over a thousand years the pre-eminent expression of Armenian culture was the illuminated manuscript--above all, the illustrated Gospel Book. Brilliantly painted and often bound in silver and decorated with jewels, these volumes constitute the principal source of information on the history, religion, language, and art of Armenia. Treasures in Heaven is a comprehensive introduction in English to the art and history of Armenian manuscript painting. It reveals the degree to which this art form embodies a distinctively Armenian aesthetic and religious experience. Eighty-eight of the most significant examples of Armenian manuscript illumination are reproduced and extensively discussed in the catalog. Essays by a team of international scholars examine each of the principal schools and periods of Armenian illumination--from the earliest surviving works of the seventh century to manuscripts produced by the Armenian Diaspora communities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chapters on the history and religion of Armenia place illuminated manuscripts within the broader context of Armenian culture. The distinctive techniques and materials of Armenian manuscript painting and bookbinding are also explained. Contributors to this volume include Helen C. Evans, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, Krikor H. Maksoudian, Sylvie L. Merian, Mary Virginia Orna, and Alice Taylor.

Author : British Museum. Department of Manuscripts,Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare,John Oliver Wardrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : UOM:39015034713324

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A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts,Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare,John Oliver Wardrop Pdf

Author : Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.),Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:83262919

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Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery by Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.),Sirarpie Der Nersessian Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Mathews,Alice Taylor
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366279

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The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor by Thomas F. Mathews,Alice Taylor Pdf

The text's elaborate illumination also brings to life a vibrant artistic center, the Monastery of Gladzor, which long ago disappeared." "The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor includes sixty color reproductions of the manuscript's illuminated pages, ten black-and-white illustrations, and two maps along with an essay that explores the book's artistic richness and theological complexity."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Monfasani
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Humanism
ISBN : 2503541542

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Bessarion Scholasticus by John Monfasani Pdf

Bessarion (d. 18 November 1472) first made a name for himself as one of the Greek spokesmen at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438-39. After becoming a cardinal, he several times entered conclaves as a serious candidate for the papacy. The library he bequeathed to the Republic of Venice, destined to become the historic core of the modern Biblioteca Marciana, is justly famous for its extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts. Celebrated in his own time for his patronage of humanists, he was also Italy's leading Platonist before the emergence of Marsilio Ficino. He always held in reverence his teacher in Greece, the Neoplatonist philosopher George Gemistus Pletho, and his In Calumniatorem Platonis, printed in Rome in 1469, was a pivotal text in the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the Renaissance. Nonetheless, Bessarion was a great admirer of medieval scholasticism and especially of Thomas Aquinas. 'Bessarion Scholasticus' examines Bessarion's relationship with Latin culture as evidenced by his library, personal relations, and writings. It examines his humanist collection, his scholastic collection, his Thomism, and the circle of scholars associated with his household, called Bessarionea Academia by contemporaries. Half of 'Bessarion Scholasticus' is a catalogue raisonne of scholastic texts and manuscripts in Bessarion's library. The volume offers the first edition of Bessarion's autograph listing of the differences between Scotists and Thomists as well as first editions of prefaces by various authors addressed to Bessarion. In addition, the appendices include statistical tables of Bessarion's holdings of Latin classical authors and of texts in civil and canonical law and a register of the members of his cardinalitial famiglia before he became cardinal legate in Bologna in 1450.

Author : Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781503607644

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The Missing Pages by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh Pdf

“[A] gripping, and at times unsettling, history of . . . the Zeytun Gospels, a lavishly illuminated Armenian book that miraculously survived centuries of war.” —The Wall Street Journal In 2010, the world’s wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. This is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript’s footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom. Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art. “A well-told tale of the history of the Armenian people [and] a wondrous and terrifically engrossing journey of this sacred religious object and priceless work of art.”—Michael Bazyler, author of Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts

Author : Bernard Coulie
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
ISBN : 2503590349

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Armenian Manuscripts by Bernard Coulie Pdf

A complete list of repositories of Armenian manuscripts in the world with full bibliography. Hellenists know the services rendered by the Repertoire des catalogues de manuscrits grecs of Marcel Richard and Jean-Marie Olivier. It is an indispensable heuristic tool, but also a witness to the development of codicology and cultural history. Such a tool was lacking for specialists of Armenian manuscripts, philologists, linguists, and art historians. Armenian Manuscripts. Catalogues, Collections, Libraries (in English) is the second edition, revised and updated, of the Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manuscrits armeniens first published in 1992. It includes the four supplements published in the journal Le Museon in 1995, 2000, 2004, and 2019, as well as new sections devoted e.g. to the main copy centers of Armenian manuscripts. The book provides a full bibliography on all repositories of Armenian manuscripts in the world, public and private, large and small. It also gives many insights about the fate of Armenian manuscripts in the course of history: where and when they have been produced, mostly in medieval monastic centers, how they escaped invasions, fires, thefts and even destructions linked to the genocide of the Armenians, and finally how they ended up in private or public collections where they can be studied and admired today. Tables of concordance between current and old references enable one to locate manuscripts that are thought to have disappeared or to find more complete descriptions in an old catalogue than are given in recent lists. The volume also includes an impressive index of manuscripts.

Author : Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884022021

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Miniature Painting in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century by Sirarpie Der Nersessian Pdf

Sirarpie Der Nersessian's scholarship has influenced the understanding of Armenian art and its Byzantine context. These two volumes are the culmination of six decades devoted to the exploration of Armenian art, and reflect a deep knowledge of the manuscripts and their creators.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012179235

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Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.),Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:83262919

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Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery by Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.),Sirarpie Der Nersessian Pdf

Author : Sirarpie Der Nersessian,Freer Gallery of Art
Publisher : Washington : Freer Gallery of Art
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Art, Armenian
ISBN : PSU:000004644569

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Armenian Manuscripts in the Freer Gallery of Art by Sirarpie Der Nersessian,Freer Gallery of Art Pdf

Author : Nira Stone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004400504

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Studies in Armenian Art by Nira Stone Pdf

Nira Stone (1938-2013) contributed to the understanding of mediaeval Armenian art and painting. Her interest ranged over a millennium of artistic expression, and over such fields of creativity as manuscript painting, frescos, and mosaics. The volume contains her published papers and one made newly public.