Նալեան (Յակոբ) [NALJIAN (Hakob II)]. Քրիստոնէական ուսանելի։ - Lot 203

Նալեան (Յակոբ) [NALJIAN (Hakob II)]. Քրիստոնէական ուսանելի։ Աշխարհաբար [Edifying Christian. In the vernacular]. Constantinople, in the printing house of Sargis and Michael Sebastien, 1747. In-8, 429 p., contemporary Armenian binding in cold-stamped brown basane, Armenian cross stamped in the center of the boards (epidermis, hinges split, corners and headbands worn, lower corner of verso missing, p. 1-16 lacking including engraved title, title and one full-page illustration, p. 429 flying, soiling and dampening, pagination errors). First edition of this work by the Patriarch of Constantinople Hákob B. Nalyan (1702-1764). From the XVIIIᵉ century, he was an Armenian scribe, educator, compiler and ecclesiastical man. Rare copy, complete with colophon. Provenance: Ստեփանոս Միկալչանյան [Stephan Mikalchian], 1789], (manuscript on head edge). On the verso of page 429, a handwritten note indicates that the book was sold by a certain Մկրտիչ Իսմայիլցի [Mkrtich Ismayiltsi] in 1788.