The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

In addition to the more lengthy chronograph!cal works
just mentioned , a number of shorter chronicles dating front
the 13-15th centuries are important for the details they
provide about events merely alluded to elsewhere, particul-
arly for western Armenia for which at times they are the
only sources. They are: the Anonymous Chronicle of the
XJIIth Century, the Annals of Bishop Step'annos (13th century)
the Annals of Het'urn II (13th century), the Chronology
Attributed to Sargis Pioak (14th century), the Chronicle of
Kirakos Rltuni (15th century) and the Anonymous Chronicle
of Sebastia «
of the text and a French translation, beginning with the
year 1092 in the Recueil dea historiens des Croisades.
Documents armlniens. I, pp. 610-72], The recent Venice
edition is based on a manuscript of the late 13th or early
14th century which had been cited in the works of i.AliSan
as the "Royal Chronicle1* [Sirarpie Der Nersessian, "The
Royal Chronicle of Smbat Constable", Dumbarton Oaks Papers
#10 (1959) PP. 143-44], S. Per Nersessian in an article
on the Royal Chronicle noted that the Sjmiacin manuscripts
used in earlier publications appear to be an abbreviation
of the longer more detailed Venice manuscript (ibid, pp. 144—
45). This latter manuscript however is defective in its
beginning and end and has several lacunae. The editor of
the Venice edition, S. Agalean recopied in smaller print
those sections which were present in Smbat'a Chronicle.
thereby producing a continuous text. Regrettably, from
the standpoint of this study, that part of the Chronicle
which detailed Smbat's mission to the Mongol court is not
contained in either the Ejmiactn or the Venice manuscripts.
It is, however, possible that Smbat's travel notes were
utilized by Het'um, Smbat's nephew in Het'urn's own history
[see A. Galstyan, "Het'urni patmut'iwn T'at'arac* grk'i
bnut'agrman hare i Iur5 (On the Question of the Characterization
of HeFumTs Book 'The History of the Tatars)",T_elekagir
#9 (1958) pp. 70-72].
1 Critical texts for all the above-mentioned chronicles
were published with extensive erudite notes by V.A. Hakobyan
Minor Chronicles of the XIII-XVIII Centuries. 2 vols. (Erevan,
1951 ana 1956).
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