Author: DURNOVO, L.A. (COMPILER), A.SH. MNATSAKANIAN (EDITOR),
Title: Ornaments of Arnenian Manuscripts. [First edition, with an introduction by M.S. Sargsian].
Description: Yerevan, State Picture Gallery of Armenia, 1978. Small folio. Original cloth, gilded covertitle, gilded title on spine, dustjacket. 229pp. of tri-lingual introduction, armenian, russian and english, including numerous coloured illustration on 100 plates with tri-lingual captions, tri-lingual list of plates at rear end, colophon. Suptuously illustrated survey of coloured ornaments as applied to antique Armenian Manuscripts. Very good copy. (dustjacket a bit frayed at rims).

Keywords: armenia armenië manuscripts illumination motifs ornament ornamentation verluchting survey history culture heritage legacy