Դամասկոսի Թանգարանի Հայկական Պատառիկները
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1972
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Towards the end of the 19th century, when German scholars opened, by the special permission of the sultan, the «treasury» in the Omayyad Mosque of Damascus, they found, among a considerable number of documents, manuscripts, and fragments written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Old French, Armenian, and other languages. Further examinations showed that the fragments of the Armenian manuscripts dated back to the 10th through 13th centuries. These fragments are now found in the National Museum in Damascus. They are parts of 13 vellum manuscripts and of an epistle written on paper. Textually they are closely associated with the Old and New Testaments, ceremonial and hagiographical books, discourse documents, and epistolary literature. A critical research on these fragments will prove to be an invaluable contribution to the study of ancient Armenian literature and the history of the Armenian language. Historical investigation bears out the fact that these fragments originally come from one of the most renowned cultural centers, namely, the Hromgla library which had been ransacked by the Mamelukes in the days of Sultan Ashraf Salah ed Din (1290-1294) and had been brought to Damascus.
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Խաչիկեան, Լ., Մաթեւոսեան, Ա., «Դամասկոսի Թանգարանի Հայկական Պատառիկները», Հայկազեան Հայագիտական հանդէս, 1972, Պէյրութ, էջ 9-54