{"id":1356,"date":"2015-03-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/msho-tcharehntir\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:22:27","slug":"msho-tcharehntir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/msho-tcharehntir\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homiliary of Mush"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translated from Armenian<\/em><\/p>\n

Mush Homiliary is one of the main specimens of the centuries-old Armenian miniature. Being the biggest Armenian manuscript, it is stored in the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots, under number 7729. Homiliary contains speeches, sermons, panegyrics, epistles, rules, works of historical content, and also contains general Christian martyrology of Armenian saints systematized\u00a0 by Christian holydays.<\/p>\n

The Homiliary was ordered to write by lord of Baberd city , by Mr. Astvatsatur,\u00a0 son of Vasus\u00a0 and Hripsime, at the end of the 12th century.<\/p>\n

\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
The Homiliary of Mush<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The manuscript was written by penman Vartan Karnetsi and illustrated by artist Stephanos. In 1202 the manuscript was basically ready, only was not written the diary. At this time, begins\u00a0\u00a0 the attack of Sultan of Iconia Rukn-Ed- Dini , during which Baberd city collapses . Orderer of the manuscript Mr. Astvatsatur dies, his property was plundered, and\u00a0 his ordered manuscript fall in to the hands of a turk \u2013 to the judge of city\u00a0 Hlat.<\/p>\n

The judge takes away the manuscript to Hlat and announces his intention to sell it. The churchmen Of Mush monastery Arakelots starting to collect moneyand\u00a0 for 4000\u00a0 silver coins buys the manuscript, and keep it in\u00a0 holy monastery of Arakelots Of Mush. Here, in 1205 the manuscript was\u00a0 finally edited , was wrote The Diary, which tells the story set forth above. This information is not by chance, and it proves that The Mush Homiliary was very special and by its holiness, and by its artistic illustration.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush, Capital letter<\/strong>, 144 \u0562, 8,8\u00d720<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Subsequently, the manuscript had\u00a0 not less than dramatic fate. During the Armenian Genocide in 1915, because of its big dimensions , the manuscript was divided into two parts and was saved from perishing. The One of the\u00a0 two parts of manuscripts the\u00a0 sisters \u2013 refugees, carrying on their backs, with great difficulty had brought to Yerevan. The second part of the manuscript was found by a Russian army officer Nicholas de Goberti, who took it to Tbilisi and presented to the museum of the Armenian Charitable Society.<\/p>\n

After a while, these two parts were donated to the\u00a0 repository of manuscripts in Echmiadzin\u00a0 and Yerevan Museum of Literature. Now the both halves, as it was said above, are in the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots in Yerevan, under the number 7729.<\/p>\n

For writing this giant manuscript, in accordance with dimensions, was processed sheets of parchment , for each of which was used\u00a0 leather of one calf . Each sheet of parchments in this giant manuscript has a area of 70.5 sm X\u00a0 55.5 sm. The manuscript is kept in two parts.\u00a0 The first part of manuscript\u00a0 weighs 15.2 kg and the second one is 12.3 kg, so total weigh is 27.5 kg. The Homiliary written by large, linear\u00a0 ancient Armenian script \u2013 Erkatagir .<\/p>\n

At the outset, the manuscript had\u00a0 660 pages, but now it has only 627 pages.<\/p>\n

\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush,
Marginal ornament<\/strong>, 89 \u0562, 12\u00d710<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush,\u00a0
Head ornament<\/strong>,
265 \u0561,<\/em> 23,5\u00d712,5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush,
Head ornament<\/strong>,
203 \u0561, 14,5\u00d713<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush, Marginal ornament<\/strong>, 315<\/em> \u0562, 25\u00d712,2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 17 sheets of manuscript now stored in\u00a0 Mkhitaryan Congregation of\u00a0 Venice, one sheet stored in repository of manuscripts in Vienna of the same Congregation . In 1958 the two sheets of manuscript was acquired by Russian State library (former name: after Lenin)\u00a0 and\u00a0 in 1979 of the result of\u00a0 exchange\u00a0 was returned to\u00a0 the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots in Yerevan. The other sheets\u00a0 are lost.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush,
The Entry into Jerusalem<\/strong>,
325 \u0562, 23\u00d737<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u0544\u0577\u0578<\/a>
Homiliary of Mush, Christ with the orderer of the manuscript and the scene of baptism and the Nativity<\/strong>, 1 \u0562, 65\u00d752<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The manuscript has only four thematic miniatures. At the beginning of Mush Homiliary there is one page which contains three miniatures. At the top of the page depicted Christ with the orderer of the manuscript and the scene of baptism. The lower part depicts The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi. The sheet on which painted this three images, unfortunately\u00a0\u00a0 damaged. The left upper and lower edges, unfortunately, torn. The fourth miniature presents the scene of The Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, which occupies only upper section of the page.<\/p>\n

The manuscript Mush Homiliary decorated with marginal ornaments, head ornaments, capital letters and ornamental scripts, that enrich and make sumptuous\u00a0 decorations of this miraculous manuscript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translated from Armenian Mush Homiliary is one of the main specimens of the centuries-old Armenian miniature. Being the biggest Armenian manuscript, it is stored in the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots, under number 7729. Homiliary contains speeches, sermons, panegyrics, epistles, rules, works of historical content, and also contains general Christian martyrology of Armenian saints systematized by \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38],"tags":[89,251,260,263,272,278,316],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-fine_arts","tag-armenian-miniatury","tag-library","tag-manuscript","tag-matenadaran","tag-mesrop-mashtots","tag-miniature","tag-parchment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvestagir.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}