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An Armenian MS. with Unique Mongolian Miniatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

H. Kurdian
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While in New York City in 1939, I purchased an Armenian MS. with most unusual Mongolian miniatures. The MS., now part of my collection, has been rebound crudely with the remains of an old oriental binding consisting of wooden boards covered with leather. The inside of the binding is lined with brown cotton print covered with a small design. The MS. has 109 leaves, each measuring 10 by 15 inches. Upon examining the text, paper, and script, we find that the present volume is composed of two different Armenian MSS. jumbled together without any consideration of the fact that the text materials are unrelated. Pages 2, 3, 4, 41, 52–70, and 83–96 are fragments of an Haismāvourk (Life of Martyrs) written about 1630, perhaps in New Djulfa (Isfahan, Persia) for the Armenian princemerchant Khodja Nazar, his son Khodja Safraz and their family. Although this part of the volume is very valuable and important, it is not of primary interest to us.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , April 1941 , pp. 145 - 148
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1941

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Page 145 note 1 See Herbert, Thomas, Travels in Persia (1627–1629)Google Scholar, “The Argonaut Series,” 1929. Khwāja Nazar (Hodge-nazar), pp. 121, 122, 137. Also the Journal of Robert Stodart, London, 1935, Sarphars Beg, pp. 71–3Google Scholar; and as Sarfarāz, Kwāja, see “Court Minutes of the East India Company,” 1640–1643Google Scholar. As Nazar, Khwajeh in A Chronicle of the Carmelite in Persia, London, 1939, pp. 245, 257, 308 (Sarfaraz), pp. 378, 379, 1074Google Scholar.

Page 146 note 1 Through years of research in thousands of Armenian MSS. all over the world, I have not seen anything remotely resembling them.

Page 147 note 1 Sakisian, Armeng, La Miniature Persane (Paris, 1929), fig. 29Google Scholar.