Rituale Armenorum: Being the Administration of the Sacraments and the Breviary Rites of the Armenian Church

Armenian Apostolic Church

Translated by F. C. Conybeare

92 chapters · about 14 h

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The opening

CANON OF THE FOUNDATION OF Αι οκ

@ Of John Mandakuni, Catholicos of the Hayq. The laying the foundations of a holy church»,

The divine bishop shall muster the reverend order of ministrants, and they proceed to a place that ts suitable’. And twelve stones of due size are brought, unwrought and unpolished; and they say four! psalms: 48. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised. 84. How lovely are thy tabernacles 8]. His foundation is in the holy mountain.

And the deacon proclaims:

Let us ask in faith and concord.

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The words
F. C. Conybeare's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 12 places
  • The scanning library's cover and catalogue label (the OCR's reading of the binding and of the record slip) (35 blocks)
  • A bookplate seen through the leaf, read by the OCR as noise (44 blocks)
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Specks, sheet signatures and marks in the margins read by the OCR as characters (147 blocks)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 4 places
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • A plate (a facsimile of a manuscript page), read by the OCR as noise (6 blocks)
  • The source website's menus, layout and notices, in 2 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 62 places
  • The closing word 'Finis.' (2 blocks)
  • The closing word 'End.' with a sheet signature
  • The errata (its corrections are not applied: they are recorded as source errors) (9 blocks)
  • The printer's imprint