MATENADARAN-INSTITUTE OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS AFTER M.MASHTOTS ENRICHED WITH AN ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPT OF 17TH CENTURY

AZG DAILY
15-09-2009

Science

Matenadaran-institute of ancient manuscripts after M. Mashtots has been
enriched with a New Testament written in 1689. The manuscript which
is rich with miniatures was written in Tatev by Mahtesi Aristakes on
the order of Deacon Martiros of Agarak village.

According to Hrachya Tamrazian, the Director of Matenadaran
during the last 2 years thanks to the philanthropists the Armenian
collection of manuscripts has been enriched with nearly 100 unique
manuscripts purchased in different ways. More often they are property
of the dynasty which is proposed to Matenadaran and thanks to the
philanthropists they involved in the rich collection of ancient
manuscripts.

The donation of this Tatev manuscript is one of those cases which
was purchased and today presented to Matenadaran by the Head of "AGBA
credit agricol" bank Stepan Gishian. According to him this institute
of ancient manuscripts which is considered to be a holy place has
a great spiritual importance for Armenians, therefore when he was
offered to buy the manuscript, he agreed without suspicion.

"I would like this experience to be infectious for my partners and the
tradition of collection of ancient manuscripts is continued," he said.

Matenadaran itself presented the philanthropist Stepan Gishian
with a medal after M. Mashtots and a French album of collection
of manuscripts.

This ancient manuscript of Tatev is the 11,171st manuscript of
Matenadaran, Armenpress reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress