Մեկնութիւն սաղմոսաց Երանելոյն դաւթի՝ զոր արարեալ է մեծջն դան - Lot 6

Մեկնութիւն սաղմոսաց Երանելոյն դաւթի՝ զոր արարեալ է մեծջն դանիէլի [DANIEL DE SALAH, Commentary on the Psalms of Blessed David, which the great Daniel composed (6th century)] Ottoman Empire, Eastern Turkey, Ayntab, dated 1836 Armenian manuscript on paper, copied for Bishop Mathatias of Ayntab, 708 pp. (354 fol.), 33 lines per page, text in notrgir script in black ink between vertical red fillets. Foliated. Frontispiece painted in pink and green with floral decoration. The colophon indicates that Mathatias Episcopos gave this manuscript to the priest Sarkis in Ayntab (in Anatolia, near Aleppo) in 1836, and that he himself revised and corrected the text. Bishop's ownership stamp in Armenian in two places, on the first and last page, dated in Arabic 1274H./1857-58. Bishop's signature next to stamp on last page. Bound in contemporary garnet-red morocco, mute five-rib spine outlined with cold-stamped fillets, framed with triple cold-stamped fillets and roulette on the boards, cold-stamped cruciform fleuronné iron, cold-stamped fleuronné motif in the spandrels, edges finely speckled with red. (Worn, some pages restored). 32.3 x 22 cm Provenance: The Armenian bishop Mathatias Episcopos, 1836; Acquired in 1982, most probably from E.J. Brill Ltd, Leiden, Netherlands Armenian translation of the complete Syriac Commentary on the Psalms of David by Daniel de Salah. This manuscript is the only copy, commissioned in the 19th century, of the only medieval Armenian manuscript of the Complete Commentary on the Psalms of David, which was copied in 1289 and is now kept at the Bzommar monastery in Lebanon (Mss no. 120). The Bzommar Commentary on the Psalms is in fact the only surviving medieval manuscript containing the complete Commentary on the 150 psalms. It was translated from Syriac into Armenian by Catholicos Krikor Vgayaser (d. 1105) for Archbishop Yovhannēs brother of the King of Armenia. Its only known copy to date is the present manuscript. The rare text of this Commentary has not yet been published, either in Syriac, Armenian or Arabic.