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SIMEON, Archbishop of Thessalonica. ata aixesewn dialogos Peri te tou Qeiou naoui. Jassy: John Molibdus for John Ducas Voevoda of Moldavia, 1683.
2 (310 x 206mm). Large woodcut arms of Moldavia on title verso, type-ornament headpieces. With the final blank. (Wormed, affecting a few letters, paper flaw in one leaf affecting a few words.) Contemporary blindtooled calf over thin pasteboard (sides rubbed, worn at extremities, backstrip partly defective and repaired, small wormholes). Provenance: title inscription dated 1728; Greek library stamp.
EARLY RUMANIAN PRINTING. The printing press at Jassy, capital of Moldavia, (on the Russian border of modern Rumania) was established in 1680 by Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1669-1707), to control the dissemination of orthodox literature and combat the influence of Protestantism in the Greek Church. Legrand II, 578.
2 (310 x 206mm). Large woodcut arms of Moldavia on title verso, type-ornament headpieces. With the final blank. (Wormed, affecting a few letters, paper flaw in one leaf affecting a few words.) Contemporary blindtooled calf over thin pasteboard (sides rubbed, worn at extremities, backstrip partly defective and repaired, small wormholes). Provenance: title inscription dated 1728; Greek library stamp.
EARLY RUMANIAN PRINTING. The printing press at Jassy, capital of Moldavia, (on the Russian border of modern Rumania) was established in 1680 by Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1669-1707), to control the dissemination of orthodox literature and combat the influence of Protestantism in the Greek Church. Legrand II, 578.