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Parchment of medium weight, well finished on both sides. The top margins have been trimmed; the fore-edge and tail are reddened. Textile fragments were removed from the manuscript and stored separately in its box. Likely, they were curtains that once hung over the prefatory illuminations. They have not been digitized due to handling concerns.
Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee. Thou shall bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus.
Unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour which is the anointed Lord.
And Joseph took Mary and fled into Egypt, as the angel had told him
Herod sent forth and slew the children that were in Bethlehem
It is the temple, on the fortieth day.
And Jesus was baptized in the Jordan by John.
Let us make three tabernacles, one for the Lord, one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead rising et cetera.
And Jesus sat upon the ass and the colt (sic) and entered the holy city of Jerusalem.
And he poured water into a basin and washed the feet of the disciples.
Judas said, "Hail Master," and kissed him, and then the soldiers laid hands upon him and seized him.
And having tied Jesus to a column they scourge him hard.
He is the wood of life for those who seek refuge in him.
And they put Jesus in a tomb which was hewn out of a rock.
He destroyed Hell and saved the souls.
Our Lord ascended in glory to the Father in Heaven.
It is the fearful day of the Judgment and the Second Coming of Christ.
And they brought before Jesus the five loaves and the two fishes, and he distributed them to the five thousand.
First part of the inscription, which continues on fol. 30r, reads, "Remember in the Lord Hohannes vardapet, the painter of the Gospel."
Last part of the inscription, which begins on fol. 29v, reads, "Remember in the Lord Hohannes vardapet, the painter of the Gospel."
Dark brown leather over wooden boards, with a flap. The upper cover is stamped in gold with three-petal floral tools arranged in a lozenge around the center and placed in the corners of the main panel, which is also decorated by a rather random placement of small rosettes and seed-shaped tools. A border of interlace tools in blinds frame the cover. The lower corner has an even more random decoration of the same tools, original in gold but now much worn, and a frame of small quire interlace tools in blind. The flap is blind tooled with the seeds and rosettes, and diagonal lines. The spine is raised at the head and tail (repaired). The headbands are embroidered in tan and olive silk. There are traces of former attachments on the cover. The cover boards are lined with blue silk damask.