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This volume is a short compilation of odes and poems in praise of Jerusalem. At the top of the design surrounding the title are King David playing his lyre and Noah’s Ark on the summit of Mt. Ararat. At the bottom, St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew, who by tradition first spread Christianity to the Armenians, are pictured on either side of the Lamb of God.
This volume is a short compilation of odes and poems in praise of Jerusalem. At the top of the design surrounding the title are King David playing his lyre and Noah’s Ark on the summit of Mt. Ararat. At the bottom, St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew, who by tradition first spread Christianity to the Armenians, are pictured on either side of the Lamb of God.