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(HAGIOGRAPHY.) Girk' or koch'i Aysmawowrk' [Synaxarion]. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; numerous woodcut illustrations, including 6 full-page; profusion of woodcut decorations, including marginal ornaments, divisional headpieces, and zoomorphic initials. Each page of text within type-ornament border. [402] (of [403?]) leaves, with 39/1 bound after 39/2-6; lacks 38/1. Folio, 414x272 mm, modern morocco with early calf covers and metal bosses laid down; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, numerous leaves rehinged, scattered tears and occasional marginal restoration or other repairs generally not affecting text, paper corrosion along edges at beginning and end causing text loss on last leaf, worming in inner margins toward end obliterating some words. Constantinople: Grigor Marzvanets'i, 1730
Second edition of a 1706 compilation of saints' lives arranged according to the liturgical calendar, the masterpiece of the press of Grigor Marzvanets'i, "one of the most beautiful examples of Armenian book printing art" (Pehlivanian, page 77). Voskanian 383.
