Žamagirk '

Žamagirk ' is the name of the liturgical book for the celebration of the hours (times of the day) in the Armenian rite . It roughly corresponds to the horologion of the Greek and the book of hours of the Latin liturgies.

One of the oldest known copies is the manuscript in the Biblioteca della Congregazione armena mechitarista , Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni , Cod. 629 (olim 677) from 1284.

Today's printed editions go back to an edition published in 1642 in Neu-Julfa , the Armenian district of Isfahan (Iran).

expenditure

• Breviarium Armenium sive dispositio communium Armeniacae Ecclesiae precum .. Now primum in Latinam lingua translatum. Venetiis. In Insula Sancti Lazzari 1908. (Armenian Horologion, Latin)
• The Book of Hours or The Order of Common Prayers at the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church. Matins, Prime, Vespers and Occasional Offices . Ouzoonian House. Evanston, Ill. 1964.

literature

• Robert F. Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West. The Origins of the Divine Office and its Meaning for Today. 2nd edition. The Liturgical Press, Collegeville 1993.
• Michael Daniel Findikyan. The Commentary on the Armenian Daily Office by Bishop Step‛anos Siwnec‛i († 735). Critical Edition and Translation with Textual and Liturgical Analysis (OCA 270). Pont. Is. Orient., Roma 2004. ISBN 88-7210-343-6