Shelfmark
Iaa5.5.11
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Gospels. Classical Armenian.
Title
Աւետարան Տեառն Մերոյ Յի [սուս] ի Ք[ րիստոս] ի Տպագրեցեալ ի տպարանի տրուպ Ա [ստու]ծատրի :
Awetaran Tearn meroy Yisusi K'ristosi: Tpagrets'eal I tparani Astuatsatri :
Awetaran Tearn meroy Yisusi K'ristosi: Tpagrets'eal I tparani Astuatsatri :
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Istanbul] : I tparani Astuatsatri [Astuatsatur], 1729.
Physical description
457, [3] p. : ill., 22 cm. (4to.)
Note
Collation and pagination in Armenian and Arabic numerals.
Note
Text enclosed within frames of type ornaments; marginal ornamentation; head- and tailpieces.
Note
Quire 2 contains the Eusebian Canon Tables.
Note
Text set in two ruled columns in 10 pt bolorgir; initial letters formed of birds and fish; Synoptic numbers below the page in medium erkat'agir (capitals); the numbers in the inner and outer margins indicate periscopes.
Note
Printed according to the style of Armenian Gospel manuscripts.
Note
The place of publication and date are taken from the colophon. The date for completion as given in the Colophon (p.459-60) is 'in the year of the Lord 1731 [ՌՉԼԱ] and in the Armenian Era 1729 [ՌՃՀԸ]. The Armenian dating is correct for it corresponds with the Catholicate of Karapet II Ulnets’i, mentioned on the title page, who reigned 1726-1729.
Note
Decoration: Rectangular headpiece marking the Eusebian canon tables [pp. xiv-xv]. Engraved portraits of the Four Evangelists [pp. 18, 148, 228, 364]; Four title pages consisting of quarter page headpieces with marginal arabesques containing in their centre the symbol of each evangelist [19, 149, 227, 365]. The first line of each Gospel formed by human figures. Other ornaments derived from manuscript styles throughout the text.
Note
Illustrations: Twenty woodcut illustrations: p. 26: Baptism (signed 'GR' i.e. Grigor). -- p. 51: Engraved portraits of the twelve apostles each holding the instrument of their death and below a four line verse on the apostles. -- p. 82: Transfiguration ('GR'). -- p. 98: Nativity ('GR'). -- p. 114: Crucifix symbolising the Second Coming of Christ. -- p. 124: Christ standing in a chalice symbolising the sacrament of the Communion. -- p. 134: Crucifixion ('GR'). -- p. 138: The Resurrection of Lazarus ('GR'). -- p. 147: blank intended for an image. p. 222: Annunciation. -- p. 236: Portrait of St John and the lamb. -- p. 239: Nativity ('GR'). -- p. 248: The tree of Jesse ('GR'). -- p. 358: Ascension ('GR'). -- p. 418: Christ raising Lazarus.
Note
The wood cut title page frame bears the initials 'GR' [i.e. Grigor] and the word « ԱԾ» [Astuats (God)].
Citation/references note
Voskanyan, 375
Citation/references note
Anasyan, 369
Citation/references note
Ghazikian, 267
Provenance
Eton College booklabel recording bequest to Eton by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on front pastedown: «Սամուելեան Հոկտեմբեր 1963» [Samuelian October 1963]. Refers to an Armenian bookshop in Paris, from which this volume was presumably purchased.
Binding
Dark brown calf over wood boards; blind tooled concentric frames of floral roll; blind tooled double fillet diagonal cross in centre of frames, and in a zigzag panel to the spine side of the frames; large lozenge shaped fleurons forming centrepiece; four raised bands; end bands.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect copy: lacks pp. 39-42.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil.
Copy-specific note
Ms. inscription on verso of the rear flyleaf in pencil: «Սուրբ աւետարնիս յիսուսի քրիստոսի որ ըստ մարկոսի» [Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St Mark].
Subject
Bible. Gospels.
Added entry--name
Samuelian, Hrant, 1891 - 1977 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Karapet, r. 1726 - 1729 II, Catholicos of All Armenians,
Added entry--name
Astuatsatur printer.
Added entry--place
Turkey Istanbul.
Language code
arm
Identifier
B43640