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ARMENIA ANANIA SANAHNETSI. Girk vor kotchi zhoghovadsou [Compilation of Stories], 1747
29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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ANANIA SANAHNETSI. Girk vor kotchi zhoghovadsou [Compilation of Stories], text in Armenian, title and text within typographical border throughout, 8 large woodcut illustrations by Grigor Marzvanetsi after Christoffel van Sichem, decorative ornaments at head of sections and marginal decorations in the style of Armenian manuscript, toning or light browning to a few pages, thin line of worming to inner margin of a few leaves, contemporary blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, rebacked in calf, red edges [not in BL or Bodleian], 4to (200 x 150mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Mahtesi Astouadstour, 13 February 1747
Footnotes
A compilation of Biblical stories (Adam and Eve, life of Christ, etc.) and Homilies by Armenian and other Church fathers, including Gregory of Narek, Gregory of Tatew, and others, written by the eleventh century Armenian theologian Anania Sanhnetsi, of the Monasteries at Haghpat and Sanahin.
Provenance: "Library of the Atonian Brotherhood transferred to Constantinople in 1871" [in Armenian], red stamp on title touching woodcut border, with 4-line ink note by Grigor the monk professing his support for the Holy Roman Church.

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