Ritual Book of Ordination (Dzernadrut'ean Mashtots')

Title: Ritual Book of Ordination (Dzernadrut'ean Mashtots')

Date: 1248

Geography: Made in Zarnuk, Melitene region? near Cilicia

Culture: Armenian

Medium: Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; 45 bifolia with lacunae

Dimensions: bifolia: 7 1/2 × 10 9/16 in. (19 × 26.8 cm)

Classification: Manuscripts and Illuminations

Credit Line: Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation, Library of San Lazzaro Abbey, Venice, Italy (ms 1657/440)

Inscription: on fol. 45v:
In the Armenian era 697 [1248] this Book of Ordination was written at the great and celebrated monastery of Zarnuk, under the auspices of the Holy Virgin, at the command of the venerable Bishop Khach'atur. Now, you who read, remember its owner Der Khach'atur and his parents and with them me, Sargis, novice copyist, and my parents and my teacher Kirakos, and glory be rendered to Christ. World without end.

Written at the monastery of Zarnuk in the Church of the Holy Virgin at the command of the Bishop Khachatur by the scribe Sargis. Given to the Library of the Armenian Manuscripts of the Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro, Venice, on October 15 1830, by Yovhannes Der Karapetian as a gift from the city of Nikomedeia (present day Izmit).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Armenia!," September 21, 2018–January 13, 2019.

Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom, ed. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.

Nersessian, Vrej. Treasures From the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art. British Library, 2001.

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