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ARMENIA EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN (SAINT) Girk Aghotis: Asatseal Srboyn Ebremi Khourwoyn Asorwots [Prayer Book], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Yohanis and Poghos, 1788] image 1
ARMENIA EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN (SAINT) Girk Aghotis: Asatseal Srboyn Ebremi Khourwoyn Asorwots [Prayer Book], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Yohanis and Poghos, 1788] image 2
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EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN (SAINT) Girk Aghotis: Asatseal Srboyn Ebremi Khourwoyn Asorwots [Prayer Book], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Yohanis and Poghos, 1788]

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN (SAINT) Girk Aghotis: Asatseal Srboyn Ebremi Khourwoyn Asorwots [Prayer Book], text in Armenian, all leaves within typographical border, full-page woodcut portrait of Ephraim on p.2, title with head-piece incorporating vase and flowers with palmette in border (shaved), capital letters formed by human figures, small hole filled to opening to leaves, old stain to final 8 leaves, modern calf [not in BL or Bodleian], 8vo, [Constantinople/Istanbul, Yohanis and Poghos, 1788]

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Prayers of the fourth century Saint, Ephraim the Syrian, beneath whose frontispiece portrait is a printed note that the book's benefactor is Mateos Aknetsi, from Egin in western Armenia.

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