Notes
Title from title page.
Layout: single column of 19-20 lines.
Script: notragir.
Decoration: ornamental initials in bird and fish letters.
Binding: paper. Cover title: Manual of the Seven Sacraments.
Colophon: none.
In Armenian.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Avedis K. Sanjian.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, presenting a "Brief Expostion of the Seven Sacraments of the (Armenian) Church." In eight chapters, the text discusses ch. 1, the sacraments in general, pp. 1-5; ch. 2, baptism, pp. 16-24; ch. 3, confirmation, pp. 24-27; ch. 4, communion, pp. 27-38; ch. 5, penitence and confession, pp. 38-52; ch. 6, extreme unction, pp. 53-54; ch. 7, ordination, pp. 55-64; and ch. 8, marriage, pp. 65-72.
References
Avedis K. Sanjian, Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States (Berkeley, 1976), no. 29, pp. 133-36
Brief Exposition of the Seven Sacraments of the (Armenian) Church. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Brief Exposition of the Seven Sacraments of the (Armenian) Church. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.