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ARMENIA GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702] image 1
ARMENIA GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702] image 2
ARMENIA GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702] image 3
ARMENIA GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702] image 4
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GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], [1702]

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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GREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], edited by Minas Amdetsi, text in Armenian, all pages within typographical border (that to title more elaborate), woodcut decorations in the margins, capital bird-shaped letters, large woodcut portrait of the author on p.10, large opening woodcut ornament on p.11, small old repairs touching inner border of title, horizontal tear to pp.11/12, old paper repairs to gutter margin of several leaves (mostly at beginning and end), final leaf with portion of upper page torn away with some loss to opening 3 lines recto and verso, some marginal ornaments shaved, occasional light old staining, contemporary calf over wooden boards, the sides decorated in blind to a geometrical design, old metal studs on lower cover, lacking metal clasps (and straps) on upper cover, rebacked in old leather [Voskanian 185], 4to (200 x 150mm.), [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702]

Footnotes

Only the second appearance in print, after the 1673 Marseille edition, of Grigor Narekatsi's "Book of Lamentations". The editor, Minas Amdetsi, notes on the colophon that text is based on a manuscript found in Jerusalem and compared with five others found at the Monasteries of Saghmosavank, Khor Virap and Sevan. An Armenian Christian mystic, Grigor/Gregory (c.945-1003) was Canonized in 2015.

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