ARMENIAN METALWORK BINDING Three piece hinged metal binding

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(ARMENIAN METALWORK BINDING.) Three-piece hinged metal binding pierced and engraved with figurative decoration on covers and text on spine, originally executed for a manuscript of the Gospels in Armenian, now encasing a leatherbound volume of blank leaves. The spine panel measures approximately 136x51 mm, and the covers 144x100 mm each; the presence of rings along the cover fore edges suggests that a flap or other form of closure may be missing. southeastern Turkey(?), 1628

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The front cover depicts the Last Judgment; the rear cover, a variation of Christ in Majesty. The text on the spine panel reads, in translation: "Hayrapet Vardapet, the recipient of this Holy Gospel, remember his parent and brothers and all his family, and me, Sahak the scribe who bound [this book] before Christ God. It was made in 1077" [i. e., 1628].