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partnership with Father Tadeos (Thadée) Hamazaspean, also from New Julfa. According to
Aslanian, Hamazaspian was probably a secret agent for the Vatican. Soon after concluding their agreement, Hamazaspean sued Voskan in the local courts on charges of heresy, interrupting the operation of the printing press. Voskan died in Marseilles on 4 February 1674. His printing press was taken over by his nephew, Soghomon Levonian (Salomon de León), who continued to litigate the lawsuit begun by Hamazaspian. The lawsuit greatly hindered the operation of the printing press. Soghomon died in 1684, leaving the printing press to his widow, Marguerite de Chave. The press was shut down in 1686 and later moved to Constantinople in 1695 with a new owner.
167:(The art of arithmetic, Marseille, 1675). Unlike previous Armenian printing presses, it printed books in much greater print runs, often in the thousands and as many as five thousand for some books, like the Bible. Most earlier Armenian presses printed in the range of 100–500 copies, with a few printing 1000–3000. It was the first Armenian printing press to print a large number of books on non-religious topics, such as
117:, then to Rome, where he tried in vain to gain permission from the Vatican to receive permission to print the Armenian Bible in an Italian city. In Livorno, he made a deal with three Julfan Armenian merchants, who provided him with the capital needed for the printing of the Bible. In 1665–1666, he moved to
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Yerevantsi's printing press (1660–1686) was the longest-running Armenian publisher in the seventeenth century. It existed for 26 consecutive years in four different countries, printing nearly 40 works. It printed the first Armenian Bible (1666–1668). Voskan's Bible was based on the 1295
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