Matenadaran

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The Matenadaran Institute building in Yerevan

The collection dates back to 405, when Saint Mesrop Mashtots created the Armenian alphabet. In 1920 the collection, held at Echmiatsin was robbed by the Bolsheviks, combined with other collections and move to in 1939 Yerevan. On March 3, 1959 the Matenadaran Institute was formed to facilitate the manuscripts and in 1962 it was named after Saint Mesrop Mashtots.

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Astrology

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Illuminated manuscripts

• 2500 illuminated manuscripts
• *GOSPEL OF MALAT‛YA 1267-1268. MATENADARAN MS NO. 10675
• *GOSPEL OF PRINCESS K‛ERAN 1265 BY THE ILLUMINATION ARTIST Toros Roslin.
• *GOSPEL MATENADARAN MS NO. 7648 XIIITH CEN
• *MATENADARAN GOSPEL [1287] NO. 197.
• *MATENADARAN ILLUMINATED MS. GOSPEL OF LUCAS
• *CHASHOTS 1286. MATENADARAN MS NO. 979

External links

• http://www.matenadaran.am/en/

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