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From the library of cardinal Albani, later Pope Clément XI: three works on the Armenian language

AGOP, Joannes (Yovhannès KONSTANDNOWPOLSECÍ).
Puritas Haygica seu grammatica Armenica a Ioanne Agop sacerdote armeno composita, ad maiorem Dei gloriam, et ad honorem Beatissimae Virginis Dei genitrix Mariae.

With vignette of the Propaganda fide on title with the motto: 'Euntes in universum mundum praedicate Evang. omni creat.'; some interesting woodcut initials, and printed for a good deal with well-casted Armenian characters.

With vignette of the Propaganda fide on title with the motto: 'Euntes in universum mundum praedicate Evang. omni creat.'; some interesting woodcut initials, and printed for a good deal with well-casted Armenian characters.

With vignette of the Propaganda fide on title with the motto: 'Euntes in universum mundum praedicate Evang. omni creat.'; some interesting woodcut initials, and printed for a good deal with well-casted Armenian characters.

With vignette of the Propaganda fide on title with the motto: 'Euntes in universum mundum praedicate Evang. omni creat.'; some interesting woodcut initials, and printed for a good deal with well-casted Armenian characters.



Rome, Typis Sacrae Congretationis de Prop. Fide, 1675. 4to. Contemporary vellum with author and title in ink on spine, red sprinkled edges. With vignette of the Propaganda fide on title with the motto: 'Euntes in universum mundum praedicate Evang. omni creat.'; some interesting woodcut initials, and printed for a good deal with well-casted Armenian characters. (6), 246, (4) pp.

With:
(2) AGOP, Joannes. Grammatica Latina Armenice Explicata ... Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1675. With title vignette of the Propaganda fide with the same motto as (1); same type as in (1). 215 pp.
(3) AGOP, Joannes. Puritas lingue Armenicae ... Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1674. With the same title vignette as in (2); same type as in (1). 215 pp.

Fine copies of the original editions of three seventeenth-century manuals on the Armenian language and grammar bound together, all three by the Armenian priest Johannes Agop (1635-1691). Works like these on exotic languages were published by the 'Congregatio Propaganda fide' in Rome, mainly for the use of missionaries who went to those regions. The linguistic works by Agop still are important for the history of the Armenian language being one of the few works on the subject published in the seventeenth century. Also the Armenian type used at the printing office of the Propaganda fide is of outstanding quality.
Our copy has a very interesting provenance, coming from the library of cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani (1649-1721), who in 1700 became pope Clément XI.

Very good copy with an interesting provenance.
Salmaslian 89.

Related Subjects: Armenia  Dictionaries  Linguistics  Provenance 

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