Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
  • Պատմութիւն Ղեւոնդեայ Մեծի Վարդապետի Հայոց  
    (Patmut῾iwn Łewondeay Meci Vardapeti Hayoc῾, History of Lewond, the eminent Vardapet of the Armenians.)
Author:
Period covered:
632-788/789
Language:
Armenian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (ethnic history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
There are eight manuscripts of Łewond’s History in the Matenadaran; four other manuscripts are preserved in the Library of the Mekhit’arist Monastery of Venice (Arzoumanian 1982: 31-33).
Chapters 13 and 14 preserve a correspondence between the Umayyad caliph 'Umar and the emperor Leo III. This correspondence was originally composed in Greek and translated ino Armenian (Gero 1973; Mahé 1996).
Edition - Translation:
  • Z. Arzoumanian (1982) History of Lewond, The eminent vardapet of the Armenians. Philadelphia.
  • K. Ezean (1887) Łewond Erēc‘ Patmut’iwn. Saint Petersburg.
  • A. Ter-Levodyan (1982) Łewond: Patmut‘yun. Yerevan.
  • G. Shahnazarian (1857) Aršawank‘ Arabac῾ i Hays, arareal Łewond Vardapeti Hayoc῾. Paris.
  • G. Shahnazarian (1856) Histoire des guerres et des conquêtes des Arabes en Arménie. Paris.
  • B. Martin-Hisard (2015) Łewond Vardapet: Discours historique (Centre de Recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance: Monographies, 49). Paris.
  • G. Ter-Vardanyean (2007) ‘Patmabanut ‘iwn Łewondeay meci vardapeti hayoc‘’. In: Matenagirk‘ Hayoc‘. Volume Six: Eighth century. Ant‘ilias: 735-851.
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Bibliography:
  • N. Akinean (1929) 'Łewond Erec‘ patmagir: Matenagrakan-patmakan usumnasirut‘iwn mĕ.’ Handēs Amsoreay 43: 330-348, 458-472, 593-619, 705-718.
  • E. Filler (1903) 'Quaestiones de Leontii Armenii historia'. Commentationes philologae Ienenses 7/1: 1-70.
  • J.-M. Gaudel (1984) 'The correspondence between Leo and ‘Umar: ‘Umar’s letter re-discovered?'. Islamochristiana 10: 109-157.
  • S. Gero (1973) Byzantine iconoclasm during the reign of Leo III, with particular attention to the Oriental sources. Leuven.
  • T. Greenwood (2012) 'A reassessment of the History of Łewond'. Le muséon 125: 99-167.
  • R. Hoyland (1994) 'The correspondence between Leo III (717-41) and ‘Umar II (717-20)'. Aram 6: 165-177.
  • A. Jeffrey (1944) 'Ghevond's text of the correspondence between Umar II and Leo III'. Harvard Theological Review 37: 269-332.
  • J.-P. Mahé (1996) 'Le problème de l'authenticité et de la valeur de la chronique de Łewond'. In: L'Arménie et Byzance: Histoire et culture (Byzantina Sorboniensia, 12). Paris: 119-126.
  • R.W. Thomson (1995) A bibliography of classical Armenian literature to 1500 A.D. Turnhout: 149-150.
  • R.W. Thomson (2007) 'Supplement to a bibliography of classical Armenian literature to 1500 A.D.: Publications 1993-2005'. Le muséon 120: 192.