Poems of Nerses IV, etc., 17th cent.
MS. Marsh 85
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Poems of Nerses IV, etc., 17th cent.
Shelfmark
MS. Marsh 85
Date
17th cent.
Language
Armenian
Contents
1. f. 9 Title: The scriptural elegy
2. f. 100(b) Title: Profession of faith Title: Բան հաւատոյ
3. f. 138 Title: Moral maxims, in alphabetical stanzas
4. f. 145(b) Title: Profession of faith, in alphabetical quatrains
5. f. 149(b) Title: Moral precepts to schoolboys, in alphabetical quatrains
6. f. 153(b) Title: Alphabetical subscription to the copy of the Proverbs of Solomon made by the same author
7. f. 157(b) Title: On Solomon
8. f. 159 Title: On heaven and its order
9. f. 168 Title: A metrical panegyric on Nerses Clayetzi, by Nerses of Lambron
10. f. 192 Title: Penitential Hymn, alphabetically arranged, by nerses Clayetzi
11. f. 193(b) Title: Supplicatory morning hymn, alphabetically arranged, by the same
12. f. 195(b) Title: Supplicatory verses to the Holy Trinity, alphabetically arranged, by the same
13. f. 196(b) Title: Moral precepts to young monks, in alphabetical order, by the same
14. f. 203 Title: an astronomical and meteorological treatise in verse
15. f. 207 Title: A poem on the loss of Paradise Title: Ադամգիրք
16. f. 312(b) Title: Alphabetical verses in praise of and addressed to the Virgin, by the same (?)
Form
codex
Hands
Written in Bolorgir script
Acquisition
This MS. was bequeathed by Archbishop Marsh in 1713.
Subject
Marsh's Library
Armenian poetry
Nerses, of Lambron, Saint, 1153-1198
Christian poetry, Armenian
Nersēs, Shnorhali, Saint, 1102-1173
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