Shelfmark
Iaa5.2.15
Author
Uniform title
[Paradise lost. Armenian]
Title
ՄԻԼՏՈՎՆԻ ԴՐԱԽՏ ԿՈՐՈՒՍԵԱԼ / պարգմանութիւն յԱնգղիական բնագրէ Հ. Յարութիւն Վ.
Miltovni Drakht koruseal / t’argmanut’iwn yAngghiakan bnagre H. Yarut’iwn V. Awgerean.
Miltovni Drakht koruseal / t’argmanut’iwn yAngghiakan bnagre H. Yarut’iwn V. Awgerean.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Ի Վենետիկ : Ի Վանս սրբոյն Ղազարու, 1824.
I Venetik : I vans srboyn Ghazaru, 1824.
I Venetik : I vans srboyn Ghazaru, 1824.
Physical description
503, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : frontis. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Language
In Armenian; translated from English.
Note
Translation of: Paradise lost.
Note
The title-page is engraved.
Note
Dedication in English to Lord George William Russell, signed by Paschal Aucher [i.e. Harut'iwn Awgerean, the translator] "for the generosity manifested by his Lordship in forwarding its publication".
Note
Plates = engraved title page and frontispiece facing first page of text (p. [27]).
Note
Pages [6]-22 contain a biography of Milton; pp. 23-24 contain a review of Paradise lost, translated from the English original.
Note
Half-title: ՄԻԼՏՈՎՆԻ ԱՆԳՂԻԱՑՒՈՅ ԴՐԱԽՏ ԿՈՐՈՒՍԵԱԼ [Milton the Englishman's Paradise lost].
Citation/references note
Nersessian, 383
Citation/references note
Davt’yan, 454
Provenance
Eton College booklabel recording bequest to Eton by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Provenance
Booklabel of Manoug Parikian.
Provenance
Pencil note in Parikian's hand: Durham Univ. '62.
Provenance
Partial blue ink oval stamp of unidentified society on title page: «Ընկերասիրաց Ընկ [...] 1882»
Binding
19th century marbled calf; gilt roll-tooled border; smooth gilt-tooled spine; dark green paper spine label; marbled endpapers; gilt fore-edges with gauffering near head and foot of spine.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted bookseller's green typescript description of a copy in original calf half-binding with price $45.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil.
Subject
Fall of man Poetry.
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Awgerean, Harutʻiwn translator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
arm eng eng
Identifier
B43908