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

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Inscriptions<br />

<strong>The</strong> late <strong>13</strong>th century archbishop <strong>of</strong> Siwnik*,<br />

Step'annos Orbelean, perhaps <strong>the</strong> first to utilize<br />

Sruanjteanc' also collected <strong>and</strong> published colophons<br />

from more than 350 manuscripts [Gareg<strong>in</strong> Sruanjteanc'<br />

T'pros Albar: Hayastani Cambord (Bro<strong>the</strong>r T'oroa. Traveller<br />

"<strong>of</strong> <strong>Armenia</strong>) 2 vols. (Const.., 1879-85); Sanjian, p. 53.<br />

TEe collections <strong>of</strong> F irlalemean <strong>and</strong> Sruanjteanc assume<br />

even greater significance when it is recalled that many<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> manuscripts from which <strong>the</strong>se colophons were collected<br />

<strong>in</strong> western <strong>Armenia</strong> were destroyed dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> after<br />

World War I. <strong>The</strong> next major compilation <strong>of</strong> colophons<br />

was published by Yakobos Taiean <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> 1890's <strong>and</strong> embraced<br />

manuscripts found at <strong>the</strong> Imperial Library <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mxit'arist<br />

library <strong>in</strong> Vienna [Yakobos Tasean, .C'uc'ak hayeren<br />

jeragrac' kayserakan matenadaran<strong>in</strong> i Vienna T^ataiogue<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Armenia</strong>n i

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