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Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts

Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts (056.00.00)

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Even after the introduction of printing, Armenian manuscripts on a variety of subjects continued to be abundantly copied and produced. The Library of Congress has several fine examples of nineteenth-century Armenian manuscripts. This one is open to the end of the index and the colophon (narration left by the scribe who copied the work) of the Armenian Book of Canons (the laws of the Church), copied by the scribe Hakob Gēorgian of Amasia in 1801.
Even after the introduction of printing, Armenian manuscripts on a variety of subjects continued to be abundantly copied and produced. The Library of Congress has several fine examples of nineteenth-century Armenian manuscripts. This one is open to the end of the index and the colophon (narration left by the scribe who copied the work) of the Armenian Book of Canons (the laws of the Church), copied by the scribe Hakob Gēorgian of Amasia in 1801.