Khachatur dpir, 1795
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photo - whole telescope
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Maker: Khachatur dpir

Year: 1795

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Collection: Wellcome Images

Accession #: Or (Armenian) 7

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Wellcome Library, London, Asian collection.

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Composite Armenian manuscript
copied by the scribe Khachatur dpir 1795.
The main text in this manuscript is a work concerning the heavenly movements composed by the 13th-century Armenian philpsopher Hovhannes Erznkac'i. The illuminated page shows an astronomer gazing through a telescope. The sun and moon can be seen just below a band of cloud
which supports the signs of the zodiac.
Folios 32 verso - 33 recto

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