Davidis Regis & Prophetæ Psalterium in Lingua Armena. [Amsterdam 1666].
82,-175 8º

Front cover	Binding and lower edge

Dedication 1	Dedication 2	Dedication 3	Title page	P. 71: Text example

This book contains the Book of Psalms from the Old Testament in Armenian, using the Armenian alphabet. The Royal Library owns two copies of this edition. It was printed in 1666 in Amsterdam where an Armenian printing house had opened a few years earlier. In 1666 the Bible as a whole was published in Armenian in Amsterdam, too. The publisher of the small book shown here calls himself Garabied Wartabied, Armenian priest. He has dedicated the work to Electoral Prince Frederick William of Brandenburg (1620-1688), and his dedication is dated 19 October 1666. The publisher of the complete Bible was an Armenian clergyman, Uscan, who had been sent to Europe by the Patriarch to produce a printed Armenian Bible.
This copy is bound in reddish brown morocco decorated in gold. Two metal clasps are preserved.

15.6 x 9.7 cm.

See the other copy under “The books of Frederik III – the oldest Royal Library”.

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