Accession number
PML 198201
Published
Romae : Typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1674.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
Attributed to Thomas à Kempis and Jean Gerson.
Translated by vardapet Yohannes of Constantinople, an Armenian priest in Venice.
Signatures: [1]⁸; A-PP⁸ QQ¹².
Seal of Propaganda Fide on the verso of the half-title page.
Translated by vardapet Yohannes of Constantinople, an Armenian priest in Venice.
Signatures: [1]⁸; A-PP⁸ QQ¹².
Seal of Propaganda Fide on the verso of the half-title page.
Description
[16], 611, [21] pages ; 16.5 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmark label: V M2 6 (spine); Francesco Casella, Naples, bookseller's ticket (rear pastedown); inscription: "30 Giugno 1868" (front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified English earl's armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Antiquariaat FORUM on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, March 2019.
Binding
19th-century Italian(?) gilt-tooled diced brown calf (Russia) over paper boards. Yellow edges. Mistitled on spine as Turkish rather than Armenian: "Kempis Turco."
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