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ORIGINAL TITLE: Yisus Ordi
TYPE: Book
COMPONENTS: 526 pp. The fine engravings (by Jacopo Ruffone; cf. Thieme/Becker 29, 213) show the crucifixion and a believer in prayer with the Trinity above.
CONDITION: Title page and two engraved plates missing. First ff. with slight worming; ms. Armenian notes to t.p., last p. and rear flyleaf. As usual without the last blank f.; also lacks title page.
NOTES: 9 Kévorkian 137. Voskanian 46. Not in Nersessian (cf. 19 note).
LANGUAGE
Armenian
ITEM ID: 14
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Jesus the Only Begotten Son (1660)

DATE
Year: 1660
Decade: 1660s
Century: 17th (1601-1700)

EDITION: 2nd

Second edition of Nerses’s “Yisus Ordi”, begun after the ambitious 1660 Amsterdam edition that inaugurated Armenian printing in the Netherlands, but finished before it; basically a slightly revised reissue of the first edition printed by in Venice by Yohannes Ankyurats’i in 1643.

46th book in Armenian printing history. Includes some handwritten Armenian notes.

ARTISTS
Name: Nerses Shnorhali
Type: Author
Artist Information: Nerses,, known as "Shnorkhali" (the Gracious) due to the elegance of his language, "is regarded as one of the greatest Armenian writers" (Cath. Ency.)