Description

The Oskan Bible of 1666 is the first complete printed Bible in Armenian. It takes its name from Oskan Erewants‘i (Oskan of Yerevan, 1614‒74), an expatriate from Armenia who, with the help of wealthy Armenian patrons, founded an influential and important press in Amsterdam for the purpose of printing books in his native language. The books produced by the press were intended mainly for export to the Armenian communities in the Ottoman Empire and Iran. Oskan based the text of his Bible on a single manuscript copied in ...