Գիրք պատասխանական Ս[ր]բ[ո]յն Աթանասի. Հարցմանց Ս[ր]բ[ո]յն Կի - Lot 79

Գիրք պատասխանական Ս[ր]բ[ո]յն Աթանասի. Հարցմանց Ս[ր]բ[ո]յն Կիւրղի Ե[րուսաղ]էմացւոյ [Book of the answers of Saint Athanasius to the questions of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem], Constantinople, [1749] (1st edition). In-12 (15 x 10 cm), Armenian text. [2] pp. with full-page woodcuts (the Ascension and Saint Athanasius), 196 pp. plus 6 pp. interspersed on pp. 4-5, well positioned but not numbered. Bound in speckled tan basane, wooden aisle boards, three-ribbed spine, cold decoration on the boards of a cruciform motif framed by a roulette and fillets (rubbing, dull corners, minor worm work on the boards, hinges split, marginal loss on the title leaf slightly reaching the lateral edge, stains and freckling). First edition. The text is pseudepigrapha (written under a false author's name) because the author is not Athanasius, a saint from Alexandria who wrote in Greek and never corresponded with Saint Cyril. The text was written directly in Armenian and deals with theological and moral issues. Listed in the Armenian language repertory by N. Voskanian et al, The Armenian Book in 1512-1800, Yerevan, 1988, no. 503, pp. 397-98.