Account of Armenian affairs

Title(s):
  • Account of Armenian affairs
  • Διήγησις τῶν γεγονότων ἐν Ἀρμενίᾳ ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ ἁγίου Γρηγορίου μέχρι τοῦ νῦν, περί τε τοῦ θρόνου αὐτῶν ἐξηγουμένη καὶ τῶν μετ' αὐτόν· καὶ περὶ τῶν βασιλευσάντων (Diēgēsis tōn gegonotōn en Armeniai apo tōn hēmerōn tou hagiou Grēgoriou mechri tou nun, peri te tou thronou autōn, exēgoumenē kai tōn met’ auton. kai peri tōn basileusantōn, Narration of events in Armenia from the days of St. Gregory until now, about their throne and those who succeeded him. And about those who ruled)
  • Διήγησις ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου Γρηγορίου μέχρι τοῦ νῦν, περί τῶν ἐν τάξει γινομένων διαδόχων αὐτοῦ ἤγουν τοῦ θρόνου αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐν τάξει γενομένων καὶ βασιλευσάντων
    (Diēgēsis apo tou hagiou Grēgoriou mechri tou nun, peri tōn en taxei ginomenōn diadochōn autou ēgoun tou thronuo autou kai peri tōn en taxei genomenōn kai basileusantōn, Narration from St. Gregory until now, on those who succeeded him on his throne, and on those who ruled)
  • Narratio de rebus Armeniae
Period covered:
325-690
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
This is a translation from a lost Armenian original (see Anonymous, Armenian history).
Edition - Translation:
  • H. Bart‘ikyan (1962) ‘"Narratio de Rebus Armeniae": Hunaren t‘argmanuteamb mez hasac mi hay-k‘alkedonakan skzbnałbyur’. Banber Matenadarani 6: 457-470.
  • F. Combefis (1648) Historia haeresis Monothelitarum, sanctaeque in eam sextae synodi actorum, vindiciae: Diversorum item antiqua, ac medii aevi, tum historiae sacrae, tum dogmatica, Graeca opuscula. Volume Two. Paris: 271-288.
  • A. Gallandi (1781) Bibliotheca veterum patrum antiquorumque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, postrema Lugdunensi multo locupletior atque accuratior. Volume Fourteen. Venice: 269-274.
  • G. Garitte (1952) La Narratio de rebus Armeniae: Édition critique et commentaire (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 132: Subsidia, 4). Leuven.
  • Patrologia Graeca, 127: 885-900; Patrologia Graeca, 132: 1237-1253.
  • V.A. Arutjunova-Fidanjan (2004) “Повествование о делах армянских” (VII в.): Источник и время. Moscow.
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Bibliography:
  • V.A. Arutjunova-Fidanjan (2014) ‘”Повествование о делах армянских” (VII в. ) и “Типик Григория Пакуриана” (XI в. ): греческий язык армяно-халкидонитских памятников’. Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия III: Филология 5 [40]: 9-21.
  • G. Garitte (1958) ‘Un nouveau manuscrit de la "Narratio de rebus Armeniae": Le Sin. gr. 1699’. Le muséon 71: 241-254.
  • R.M. Vartikyan (2006) ‘По поводу книги В.А. Арутюновой-Фиданян “Повествование о делах армянских. VII век. Источник и время”’. Античная древность и Средние века 37: 104-139.