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EXHIBITION IN HARVARD COMMEMORATES 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMENIAN PRINTED BOOK
armradio.am
06.04.2012 12:41
"The Armenians and the Book," an exhibit commemorating the 500th
anniversary of the first printed book in Armenian, will be open to
the Harvard community at Lamont Library, April 9 to 25.
The Armenian alphabet was invented at the beginning of the fifth
century AD; and the exhibit, drawn from collections of the Harvard
Libraries, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(NAASR), the Armenian Library and Museum of America, the Armenian
Cultural Foundation and the private collection of Dr. James R.
Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard, features
an array of documents - Armenian prayer scrolls, prayer books and
magical manuscripts, a facsimile of the first Armenian printed book,
the first Armenian printed Bible, illustrated editions of Classical
Armenian texts and translations and rare, fine literary works from
the era of the Armenian Genocide and the Soviet Armenian republic,
as well as conversation manuals, cook books and printed ephemera
reflecting the Armenian immigrant experience in America, the Armenian
Mirror-Spectator reports.
armradio.am
06.04.2012 12:41
"The Armenians and the Book," an exhibit commemorating the 500th
anniversary of the first printed book in Armenian, will be open to
the Harvard community at Lamont Library, April 9 to 25.
The Armenian alphabet was invented at the beginning of the fifth
century AD; and the exhibit, drawn from collections of the Harvard
Libraries, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(NAASR), the Armenian Library and Museum of America, the Armenian
Cultural Foundation and the private collection of Dr. James R.
Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard, features
an array of documents - Armenian prayer scrolls, prayer books and
magical manuscripts, a facsimile of the first Armenian printed book,
the first Armenian printed Bible, illustrated editions of Classical
Armenian texts and translations and rare, fine literary works from
the era of the Armenian Genocide and the Soviet Armenian republic,
as well as conversation manuals, cook books and printed ephemera
reflecting the Armenian immigrant experience in America, the Armenian
Mirror-Spectator reports.