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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.

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