Exhibition of Armenian old books was opened in Paris

On October 26, prestigious French library Mazarine in Paris, inaugurated a magnificent exhibition of Armenian old books “of the revival to the Lights “, in opportunity of 500 years of the birth of the Armenian printing. French-Armenian journalist Jean Eckian informs about this from Paris.  

The exhibition presents 58 works. It reports the wide and fragmented geography of the Armenian printing office of the first centuries (Venice, Rome, Constantinople, Amsterdam, Marseille, Madras…), and often difficult conditions in which the men of the book worked. Among the works, an Alphabetum Armenicum offered to Cardinal Mazarin.