Shelfmark
Iaa6.3.11
Author
Uniform title
[Հաւատով խոստովանիմ]
[Hawatov khostovanim]
[Hawatov khostovanim]
Title
Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum patriarchae, triginta tribus linguis editae.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetiis : In insula S. Lazari., 1862.
Physical description
[8], 560, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : port. ; 15 cm.
Language
The translation of the author's prayer "In faith I confess" in 33 languages.
Note
With additional engraved title page by Bernasconi after Rossi: Preces S. Nersetis.
Note
The Prayer of Nerses Shnohali "Հաւատով խոստովանիմ" [Hawatov Khostowanim = In faith I confess], comprising 24 verses for each of the 24 hours.
Note
Languages included are: Ethiopian, English, Arabic, Armenian, Celtic (i.e. Breton?), Chaldaic, Danish, French, German, Greek, Eskimo, Hebrew, Irish, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Georgian, Illyrian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Malay, Malayalim, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Chinese, Syriac, Swedish, Turkish and Walachian (Romanian).
Note
The volume is a testimony to the variety of founts available to the Mkhit’arist press in S. Lazzaro.
Note
Engraved portrait of St Nerses with caption in Latin and Armenian by G. Bernasconi after Busato.
Note
Dedication in French to Tsar Alexander II; preface in Latin.
Citation/references note
Ghazikian, II, 260
Citation/references note
Not recorded by Voskanyan, N. et al., 1850-1900.
Provenance
Booklabel of Manoug Parikian. Part of bequest to Eton College Library by Manoug Parikian in 1988.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Bellingham, Bt.; inscriptions in ink on recto and verso of front endpaper recording purchase by Henry Bellingham of Castle Bellingham at the convent of S. Lazzaro, Venice, 14 May 1870.
Provenance
Bellingham bookplate obscures an early bookplate reading 'Amic[-?] ... Belli[ngham ... C]astle ... Sir H. ... Bart.'
Binding
19th century red leather quarter binding; blind-tooled spine with gilt spine title; bubble-grained red cloth boards; blue endpapers; gilt text block edges.
Copy-specific note
Parikian's bibliographical notes in pencil on endpaper.
Subject
Subject
Genre/Form
Prayers.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Parikian, Manoug former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
arm mul arm lat fre
Identifier
B44524