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Mekhitar Bible
Publisher Armenian Mekhitartist Congregation, Venice
Not on view
In the early eighteenth century in Constantinople, Abbot Mekhitar Sebastats‘i (1676–1749) founded the Armenian Catholic order (Benedictine rite) known as the Mekhitarists. By 1717 the order had moved to San Lazzaro, Venice, where this Bible was printed in 1733. Mekhitar edited the text, which was based on the Oskan Bible, and copied some of its images, such as the depiction of the Queen of Sheba kneeling before King Solomon at the upper right.
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