BY PROGRAM APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF MATENADARAN’S MANUSCRIPTS CAN BE PREPARED IN TEN YEARS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 13, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The government has approved
a program on complete description and printing of Matenadaran
manuscripts’ collection. As Hrachya Tamrazian, the Director of
Matenadaran, said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent,
this program being one of the priorities of Armenology requires hard
work and needs additional specialists. "With our current resources
it will take us 50 years to do the whole work," he said.

According to H. Tamrazian, in case of the fulfilment of the program
presented the work will be organized in a centralized way, new
specialists will be involved and the whole list of Matenadaran’s
manuscripts will be completed and printed within ten years.

"We have already invited five research officers at the expense of
our own reserves. New specialists will be also invited next year,
and the issue of change of generation in Matenadaran will be also
solved in this way," Hrachya Tamrazian emphasized. The institution is
already implementing a joint program with Yerevan State University:
gifted students will come to Matenadaran, will study the Manuscripts,
will have a possibility to raise the level of their skills, which
will contribute to multiplication of Matenadaran’s potential.

The Director of Matenadaran said that two volumes of Matenadaran
manuscripts’ basic list have been already printed. They include 600
manuscripts. The third volume will be also printed one of these days
and the preparation work of the fourth volume is underway.

"This is the large program Matenadaran’s specialists have been working
at for many years to present a complete description of the whole
list of manuscripts. The printing of the basic list of manuscripts
is really one of the priorities of whole Armenology, and that is not
only study of manuscripts, but also complete and detailed description
of the materials, during preparation of which new unread pages can
be revealed," H. Tamrazian stated.