Late Antique Historiography

Armenian history

Title(s):
  • Armenian history
Author:
Period covered:
At least 325-690
Language:
Armenian
State of Preservation:
Hypothetical
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
This is the supposed Armenian original of Anonymous, Account of Armenian affairs. Two other texts may be dependent on this lost Armenian text: a letter from Photius of Constantinople to the Armenian Catholicos Zakaria, preserved only in Armenian, and a Georgian treatise of the Catholicos Arsenius (ninth century)  Fragments of a Georgian translation of the Armenian text have also come down to us.
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Bibliography:
  • G. Garitte (1952) La Narratio de rebus Armeniae: Édition critique et commentaire (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 132: Subsidia, 4). Leuven.