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183731378AB1837. Venice Insula S. Lazari 1837. Duodecimo. Portrait Frontispiece engraved title 4 434 pages. Original Hardcover / Contemporary full leather with original spinelabel and gilt ornament on spine and boards. Binding rubbed. One corner slightly damaged. Rear panel stronger rubbed. Minor faded dampstain to first four pages frontispiece and some pages within. Overall very good ! From the library of David L. Arthur / ExLibris / Bookplate of David L. Arthur to pastedown with his Motto: "Tout Vient De Dieux". 24 prayers of Saint Nerses printed in differing languages and typography: in Armenice Armenian Graece Greek Latine Italice Galllice Hispanice Germanice Fraktur Hollandice Suetice Anglice Hibernice Gaelic Russice Cyrillic Polonice Illyrice Cyrillic Hungarice Iberice Georgian Mkhedruli Aethiopice Ethiopic Turcice Arabic Persice Arabic Arabice Arabic Siriace Jacobite Hebraice unpointed square Hebrew Chaldaice Nestorian Sinice Chinese. Nerses IV the Gracious Armenian / also Nerses Shnorhali Nerses of Kla or Saint Nerses the Graceful; 1102 13 August 1173 was Catholicos of Armenia from 1166 to 1173. A more precise translation of his epithet Shnorhali is "filled with Grace". He received the appellation Shnorhali from his contemporaries because of the very irenic quality of his writing. During his time as a bishop and later as Catholicos of the Armenian Church Nerses worked to bring about reconciliation with the Eastern Orthodox Church and convened a council with emissaries selected by the Byzantine Emperor himself to discuss how they might be able to reunite the two churches. The terms the emperor offered were however unacceptable to both Nerses and the Armenian Church and the negotiations collapsed. Nerses is remembered as a theologian poet writer and hymn composer. He has been called "the Fénelon of Armenia" for his efforts to draw the Armenian church out of isolation and has been recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church who hold his feast on August 13 and by the Armenian Apostolic Church who celebrate him in mid-October on the Saturday of the Fourth Week of the Holy Cross. Wikipedia hardcover
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