A total of nineteen manuscripts were digitized this week. Like last week, the vast majority, fifteen, are from the Capp.Sist.Diari collection. The remainder are one each from Chig, Vat.arm, Vat.lat, and Vat.pers

to the right is the start of the Gospel of Luke found on f.170r of Vat.arm.40. This manuscript is a copy of the four gospels from 1644, decorated in an Iranian-influenced style referred to as the Isfahan School. The text is in Bolorgir, which became the standard script for Armenian by the 13th C.

Most of the Diari manuscripts are undecorated, or at most have a simple border on the title page. Unusually Capp.Sist.Diari.83, from 1666, has a large number of highly ornate ink drawings at the back, covering ff.48r-60r and ff.106r, 115r and 101r (note that ff.76-105 are missing from the main block of the MS, and f.101 is bound at the end). At the bottom is a bit of the decoration from f.101r, which, in addition to a lovingly rendered skeleton, has a list of who sang each of the nine lections for Matins on the Feast of All Souls. This gives an unusually precise window into the practice, letting us localize a musical performance to a specific time and date (November 2, 1666), with a named artist.