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    The Matenadaran (Armenian: Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and...
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    of metal oxides and an extremely stylized portrayal of the world. The Matenadaran Institute in Yerevan has the largest collection of Armenian manuscripts...
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    Roslin made of basalt was erected in 1967 in front of the entrance of Matenadaran. The statue was designed by Mark Grigoryan and sculpted by Arsham Shahinyan...
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    Armenia and shares a building with the History Museum of Armenia, and the Matenadaran contains one of the largest depositories of ancient books and manuscripts...
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    of Karabakh Armenians regardless their religiosity. A branch of the Matenadaran, the Yerevan-based museum and research institute of manuscripts, was...
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    anthroposophical medicine, invited to work as an editor at the Goethe Matenadaran in Weimar Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Belgian painter, architect...
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    historian and philologist. He served as the director of the Mashtots Matenadaran from 1954 until his death. He specialized in medieval Armenian history...
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    Matenadaran M6288, Female troubadour with saz, Horomos, Ani, 1211...
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    The Matenadaran MS 7117 is a manuscript from Matenadaran which contains apologetic texts as well as codex of different alphabets such as Armenian, Greek...
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    The Echmiadzin Gospels (Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS. 2374, formerly Etchmiadzin Ms. 229) is a 10th-century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery...
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    The Gospel of Mark in Armenian, Codex 2627, folio 436 recto (Matenadaran)...
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    the Soviet period. Ashot G. Abrahamian, who began his research at the Matenadaran in the 1930s, first published one of Anania's arithmetical texts in 1939...
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    A 14th-century Armenian manuscript, with painting by Sargis Pitsak. The first page of the Gospel of Mark. Cod. 2627, fol. 436 r. (Matenadaran)...
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    Retrieved 2015-02-26. Ester Petrosian, "Manuscript Cairo Syriac 11," Matenadaran Bulletin 24, p. 70. (in Russian) Qypchaq languages. Unesco.kz Dowsett...
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    an Armenian manuscript dating from the 15th century. This manuscript, Matenadaran No. 7117, first published by Ilia Abuladze in 1937 is a language manual...
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    rediscovery in 1937 by a Georgian scholar, Professor Ilia Abuladze, in Matenadaran MS No. 7117, a manual from the 15th century. This manual presents different...
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  • female warrior armed with a sword, overlooking the entire city. The Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots of ancient manuscripts is one of the richest libraries...
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    A Haysmavurk (Synaxarion) in Armenian restored and kept in Matenadaran...
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    from 1991 until his resignation in 1998. A senior researcher at the Matenadaran, he led the Karabakh movement for the unification of the Armenian-populated...
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    (Yerevan, 1978) scientific work of Astghik Gevorgyan, a researcher at Matenadaran, the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Candidate in Arts...
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    was previously known as Lenin Avenue. There is a statue of him at the Matenadaran, one at the church he was buried at in Oshakan village, and one at the...
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    US) Definitions of Philosophy of David the Invincible; 1280; vellum; Matenadaran (Yerevan, Armenia) Detail from Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an...
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    Armenian music manuscript with khaz neumes, 12th century (Matenadaran)...
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  • kept in the Matenadaran. The oldest is A (Matenadaran M5254), copied by the scribe Geworg in the monastery of Deljut in 1280. B (Matenadaran M627) was copied...
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    A bust of Khorenatsi at the Matenadaran...
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  • Shakespeare. A wealth of manuscript information about the theater is stored in Matenadaran. Armenian theater boasts a history spanning over 2000 years. Greek historian...
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    Frik's monument in front of Matenadaran...
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    Vardges Hamazaspyan and finishes at the end of Mashtots Avenue, near to Matenadaran. Except for the Vagharshapat-Yerevan buses, taxis designed specifically...
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    tetradrachm ֏1,000 145 x 68 mm Brown and orange Mesrop Mashtots statue and Matenadaran 7th century obelisk monument in Aghitu Memorial ֏5,000 145 x 71 mm Green...
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  • alphabet Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, known as Matenadaran, a repository of ancient manuscripts, research institute and museum located...
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