Shelfmark
Iaa6.3.08
Author
Uniform title
[Paradise lost. Armenian]
Title
Միլտոնի Կորուստ Դրախտին / Թարգմանեաց Հ. Արսէն Կոմիտաս Բագրատունի ի Մխիթարեանց:
Miltoni Korust Drakhtin / T’argmaneats’ H[ayr] Arsen Komitas Bagratunie i Mkhit’areants’.
Miltoni Korust Drakhtin / T’argmaneats’ H[ayr] Arsen Komitas Bagratunie i Mkhit’areants’.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Ի Վենետիկ : ի Սուրբ Ղազար, 1861.
I Venetik : I Surb Ghazar, 1861.
I Venetik : I Surb Ghazar, 1861.
Physical description
[8], 273, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates : port., frontis. ; 23 cm.
Language
In Armenian, translated from English.
Note
Milton's Paradise lost, translated into Classical Armenian metrical verse by Father Arsen Komitas Bagratuni of the Mkhit’arist Order.
Note
The plates are a portrait of Milton with the imprint of Furne, Paris; a steel-engraved added title plate; and a steel-engraved frontispiece plate of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.
Note
The final leaf is blank.
Note
Dedication to Queen Victoria in English and Armenian.
Note
The work was previously translated by Yarut'iwn Awgerean in Venice in 1824.
Citation/references note
Voskanyan, N., et al., 1851-1900, 990
Provenance
Booklabel of Manoug Parikian. Part of bequest to Eton College Library by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Provenance
Parikian's pencil note on endleaf recording that the book was acquired at Durham University in 1962.
Binding
20th century vellum binding; gilt-tooled, smooth hollow spine with unlettered maroon and black spine labels; inner joints reinforced with black tape.
Copy-specific note
Blank leaves of stiff blue paper bound in at end.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil on endleaf.
Subject
English literature Translations into Armenian.
Subject
Epic poetry, Armenian.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
arm eng
Identifier
B44518