TYPE: Book
COMPONENTS: 100 pp.
NOTES: Voskanian 168. There isn't a complete version even in the Matenadaran. This is a very, very rare book.
LANGUAGE
Armenian
ITEM ID: 33
Tale of Copper City
DATE
Year: 1708
Decade: 1700s
Century: 18th (1701-1800)
EDITION: 1st
First edition histories of Khikaray and Pahlul Kings, bishop Aleqsianos.
According to scholar Haig Utidjian, “Apparently it tells the story of the City made of ‘copper’, and the questions ‘of the girl and of the child’, the story of Xikar and of the King P’ahlul, etcetera, which is a parable for the world. There was a Calif at the city of Baghdad, whose name was Abdumelik’. One day he went down to the meydan and gathered his grandees; he enquired about Solomon, as to how he commanded…”
ARTISTS
Name: Sargiss/Sargis Dpirs Printing House
Type: Printer
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