Author: NIERSIS CLAJENSIS [NERSES], SANCTI:
Title: Preces sancti armeniorum patriarchae viginti quatuor linguis editae. Venetiis, In Insula S. Lazari, 1837.
Description: . 12mo. Pp. (vi), 434 + add. (ii), 43. With one engraved front portrait. Some light staining towards the end. Contemporary half green morocco, decorated in gilt, g.e., extremities rubbed. A type specimen book containing the prayers of Nerses in 25 different languages. Includes scripts of Armenian, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Chinese and Aethiopian. First published in 1818, reprinted many times. Printed at the Armenian monastery on the island of S. Lazarus outside Venice. Wetzer ix, 162.

Keywords: Near East, arabic, armenia, armenian, turkey, turkish, syriac, syria, chinese, china, kina, chine, ethiopia, ethiopian, language, langue, linguistic


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