ARMENIAN ANTIQUE BOOKS ON VIEW AT MAZARINE LIBRARY IN PARIS
by Jean Eckian

Published: Monday November 05, 2012

One of the books exhibited. Jean Eckian

Paris – On October 26, the oldest French public library Mazarine in
Paris, inaugurated a magnificent exhibition of Armenian old books
“Of the revival to the Lights,” to mark 500 years of the birth of
the Armenian printing.

The exhibition presents 58 works. The exhibition reflects the wide and
fragmented geography of the Armenian printing, including Venice, Rome,
Constantinople, Amsterdam, Marseilles, Madras and elsewhere, and often
difficult conditions in which the men of the book worked. Among the
works, an Alphabetum Armenicum offered to Cardinal Mazarin (1602-61).

The exhibit is on view through November 30. For information visit

From: Baghdasarian