Late Antique Historiography

Universal history

Title(s):
  • Universal history
  • Պատմութիւն ի սկզբանց
    (patmut‘iwn i skzbanc‘, History from the beginning)
  • Պատմութիւն բանի ի պատմագրական տառից
    (patmut‘iwn bani I patmagrakan taṙic‘, History [compiled] from historical books)
Author:
Period covered:
Year 75 of Abraham to 1004/5
Language:
Armenian
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Secular history (ethnic history)
  • Secular history (chronological history)
Remarks:
Stephen had a monastic education (Greenwood 2017). The nickname Asołik was attached to Step’anos Taronec‘i after 1072 (after Aristakes), but before 1163 (Samuel of Ani), but it may be incorrect. This may be a conflation with another Stephen who wrote a commentary on Jeremiah (Greenwood 2017). The earliest manuscript that preserves a title is Yerevan, Matenadaran 1482 (year 1678), which is also the only one to identify Stephen as a bishop. The title is missing from Yerevan, Matenadaran, 2865 as well as from the majority of the manuscripts that pre-date the nineteenth century. The end of book II, chapter 3 is missing in all of the manuscripts.
Edition - Translation:
  • E. Dulaurier (1883) Étienne Acoghig de Daron: Histoire Universelle. Paris.
  • I.O. Emin (1864) Vseboschaja Istorija Stepanosa Taronskogo Askohika. Moscow.
  • H. Gelzer, A. Burckhardt (1907) Des Stephanos von Taron Armenische Geschichte (Scriptores sacri et profani, 4). Leipzig.
  • T. Greenwood (2017) The Universal history of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi: Introduction, translation, and commentary (Oxford studies in Byzantium). Oxford.
  • A.J. Hacikyan, G. Basmajian, E.S. Franchuk, N. Ouzounian (2002) The Heritage of Armenian Literature. Volume Two: From the sixth to the eighteenth century. Detroit: 316-320.
  • V.A. K’osyan (1987) Patmutiun tiezerakan Step’anosi Taronec’i Asołik (Haykakan Hamabarbaṙ, 18). Yerevan.
  • F. Macler (1917-1920) Étienne Asolik de Taron: Histoire Universelle. Paris.
  • F. Macler (1920) Étienne Asolik de Taron: Histoire Universelle (Publications de l’École des Langues Orientales Vivantes, 18bis). Paris
  • S. Malxasean (1885) Step’anos Taronec’woy Patmut’iwn tiezerakan. Saint Petersburg.
  • G. Manukyan (2012) Step‘anos Tarōnec‘i, Patmut‘iwn tiezerakan. In: MateMatenagirk‘ Hayoc‘. Tenth-century historiography. Volume Fifteen: Book II. Ant’ilias: 617-829.
  • G. Shahnazarian (1859) Tiezerakan Patmut’iwn Step’annos Vardapeti Taronec’woy. Paris.
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Bibliography:
  • G. Abgaryan (1962) ‘Karcec’yal Step’anos Taronac’. In: Noyn ink’ě Step’anos Taronac’i Asołikně: Patma-banasirakan Handes 5: 210-24.
  • N. Akinean (1908) ‘Step’anos Asołik’. Handes Amsorya 22: 219-20.
  • N. Akinean (1955) ‘Step’anos Asołik ew Komsajagk’’. Handes Amsorya 69: 115-36.
  • N. Biwzandac’i (1899) Tełekut’iwn i girs patmut’ean Step’anosi Taronec’woy Asołik koč’ec’eloy’. Handes grakan ew patmakan 2: 291-332.
  • N. Biwzandac’i 1985) ‘Step’anos Asołik. Patmut’iwn tiezerakan. A. Baṙk’ artak’oy Nor Haykazean Baṙaranin, ew B. Baṙk’ oroc’ Vkayut’iwnk’ pakasen in NHB, ew G. Šabat’ P’okrik Šabat’ K’aṙasnordac’’. Handes Amsorya 99: 47-52.
  • M. de Durand (1969) ‘Citations patristiques chez Étienne de Taron’. In: Armeniaca: Mélanges d’études arméniennes publiés à l'occasion du 250e anniversaire de l'entrée des pères mekhitaristes dans l'Ile de Saint-Lazare (1717-1967), ed. M. Djanchian. Venice: 116-124.
  • H. Gelzer (1898) Sextus Julius Africanus. Volume Two. Leipzig: 466-475.
  • A.S. Mat’evosyan (1986) ‘Step’anos Taronac’i Asołikě ev Anania Širakac’u ‘K’nnikoně’. Patma-banasirakan Handes 114: 125-133.
  • K.M. Muradyan (1989) ‘Step’anos Syunec’u ev Step’anos Asołiki meǰ ěndhanur skzbnałbyuri masin’. Patma-banasirakan Handes 124: 133-140.
  • A. Ter-Mik’aelean (1892) ‘Asołkay Patmut’ean ‘korac’ gluxnerě’. Ararat: 748-754.