Shelfmark
Iaa5.4.06
Title
Alphabetum Armenum cum Oratione dominicali Salutatione angelica Initio Evangelii S. Iohannis et Cantico poenitentiae..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Romae : Typis S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
Physical description
32 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
Edited by Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi.
Note
Contains three designs of Armenian fonts: bolorgir (round hand), tsaghkagir (decorative letters) and erkat’agir (uncials). Armenian texts set in 12pt bolorgir, using also notrgir (cursive) and capitals. The texts include the Lord’s Prayer; the Magnificat; the Gospel of Saint John I:1-17; and Nerses Shnorhali’s Ashkhar Amenayn [Աշխարհ Ամենայն].
Note
One of 16 works on oriental alphabets issued by this press between 1629 and 1791 for the use of missionaries and philologists, sometimes found bound together in 2 vols. (cf. Collection de spécimens de caractères 1517-2004, 12); some titles sometimes found with replaced title-pages within this same time frame.
Note
Signatures: A-B⁸.
Note
Title-page vignette (seal of the Congregation); tail-piece.
Note
At foot of title: Praesidum adprobatione.
Note
Date precedes printer statement in imprint.
Citation/references note
Nersessian, 672
Citation/references note
Voskanyan, 743
Citation/references note
Lint, T. M. van & Meyer, Robin. Armenia : masterpieces from an enduring culture (Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2015),
Provenance
Eton College booklabel recording bequest to the college by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Provenance
Booklabel of Manoug Parikian.
Provenance
Two loosely inserted TLs from antiquarian bookseller C. E. Rappaport, Rome, dated 28 January and 12 February 1970, the former annotated "ordered 3 Feb." and including pasted-on extract from bookseller's catalogue.
Binding
20th-century plain vellum boards.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil, including note of copy sold by Chamonal in Dec. [19]85, "tres rare", for "3.850 francs = ca. £350.-".
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted copy of: Alphabetum Armenum. Rome : S.C.P.F., 1673 (Iaa5.4.6A).
Subject
Printing Specimens Early works to 1800.
Subject
Armenian language Alphabet Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Nersēs,, 1102 - 1173 Shnorhali
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Catholic Church.. Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, printer.
Added entry--name
Rappaport, C. E. (Firm) bookseller.
Added entry--title
Bible. John, I, 1-17 Armenian.
Added entry--place
Italy Rome.
Language code
lat arm
Identifier
B43656