http://greenstone.flib.sci.am/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi
Site internet produit à l’occasion du 500e anniversaire de l’imprimerie arménienne en 2012. Contient un outil bibliographique et des numérisations. Le site est soutenu par :
Equipment for digitisation activities was funded by “Endangered Archives Programme” supported by Arcadia and administrated by the British Library through the EAP180 project.
This project was made possible in part through a donation from the Internet Society
About this collection
The first Armenian book was printed in Venice in 1512 by Yakob Meghapart. Between 1512 and 1513 he printed five titles: “Urbatagirk”, “Parzaytumar”, “Pataragatetr”, “Altark” and “Tagharan”. Following the initial period Armenian printing spread rapidly during the XVI-XVIII centuries into cities with large Armenian presence such as Venice, Constantinople, Rome, Lvov, Milan, Isfahan, Livorno, Marseilles, Amsterdam, Madras, Calcutta, Smyrna, Etchmiadsin, Trieste, Petersburg, Nor Nakhijevan, Astrakhan. Thanks to Armenian bibliographers Dr. Ninel Voskanyan, Revd. Dr. Vrej Nersessian and other scholars the early printed book collection has been catalogued to the highest standard in three sequences: 1512-1800; 1801-1850 and 1851-1900.
Successful realisation of this project will:
improve the facilities for Armenian and international users’ accessing Armenian rare book collections;
supply researchers with easy access to high-quality, well structured unique resources and the tools, interfaces to help them effectively organise research processes;
open the material to scholars worldwide, currently unable to study them firsthand due to distance;
prevent further physical deterioration of the collections.
