"To Know Wisdom and Instruction": The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress
Exhibition Items
Exhibition Items
- Abraham Ortelius. “Turcici Imperii Descriptio” from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1570. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (071.00.00)
- Robert Hewsen. “Historical Armenia,” in Armenia: A Historical Atlas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (074.00.00)
- Fragment of embroidered ecclesiastical fabric, ca. 1741. Silk, metallic thread, and glass beads. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
- Աւետարան (Gospel Book). Manuscript copied by Nerses the Abbot, Jerusalem, 1321. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
- Աւետարան (Gospel Book). Manuscript copied by Nerses the Abbot, Jerusalem, 1321. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (002.00.01)
- Աւետարան (Gospel Book). Manuscript copied in the Monastery of Verin Noravank‘, Armenia,1487. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
- The Evangelist John from Աւետարան (Gospel Book). Manuscript copied in the Monastery of Verin Noravank‘, Armenia,1487. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.01)
- Book of Exodus, Աստուածաշունչ (Bible), edited by Oskan Erewants‘i (Oskan of Erevan), Amsterdam: Tparan St. Ejmiatsin and St. Sargis the General, 1666. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
- Book of Psalms, Manuscript probably copied in the seventeenth century. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
- Պարզաբանութիւն Սաղմոսաց Դաւթի Մարգարէին (Commentary on the Psalms of the Prophet David) by Hōhannis Kostandinupōlsets‘I (John of Constantinople). Venice: Gulnazari Ordi, 1687. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)
- Joseph Pennell. “The Armenian Convent,” ca. 1905. Russian chalk drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)
- Գիրք առակաց (Book of Proverbs) from Աստուածաշունչ (Bible), published by Mkhit‘ar Sebastats‘i. Venice: Tparan Anton Bortoli, 1733. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)
- Mkhit‘ar’ of Sebastia. “Universal Geography” from Բառգիրք Հայկազեան Լեզուի (Dictionary of the Armenian Language), Venice: Anton Bortoli, 1749. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
- Missal from T‘akhtayghalēn in the region of Sebastia (now Sivas, Turkey). Manuscript copied in 1722. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
- Խորհրդատետր սրբոյ Պատարագին ըստ արարողութեան Հայաստանեայց եկեղեցւոյ համեմատ օրինակին տպելոյ ի Հռովմ 1677 (The Divine Liturgy [Missal] in accordance with the service of the Armenian Church following the example published in Rome in 1677). Venice: San Lazzaro, 1823. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)
- Canto Liturgico della Chiesa Armena (Liturgical Chant of the Armenian Church), 1887. Manuscript copied by Pietro Bianchini. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
- Շարակնոց երաժշտական երգեցմունք (Collection of Musical Hymns). Amsterdam: Tparan S. Astuatsatsin, 1712. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)
- Komitas. New York: Diocesan Records and the Komitas Centennial Committee, 1970. Compact disc reissue, n.d. Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
Used with permission of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern).
- Շարակնոց (Hymnal). Manuscript copied in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress. Gift of Seta Northrup, Aram Mardirosian, and Sona Olson (078.00.00)
- Ժամագիրք Հայոց (Armenian Book of Hours). Constantinople: Tparan Hovhannēs Astuatsatrian, 1768. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)
- Hakob Vardapet. “Introductio ad Linguam Armeniam: De Alphabeto Armeniorum” (Introduction to the Armenian Language: About the Alphabet of the Armenians), from the Dictionarium Novum Latino-Armenium (New Armeno-Latin Dictionary). Rome: Sac[ra] Congreg[atio] de Propaganda Fide, 1714. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)
- Հմայիլ (phylactery). Constantinople, ca. 1725. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)
- Grigor Lusavorich‘ (St. Gregory the Illuminator) in Zenob Glak. Պատմութիւն Տարօնոյ (The History of Taron). Constantinople: Grigor Marswanets‘i, 1719. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)
- Illumination from an illustrated Յայսմաւուրք (Synaxary), seventeenth century. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
- Vardan Hampikian. Monastery of St. John the Precursor, early twentieth century. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
- Nersēs Lambronats‘i (Nerses of Lambron). Մեկնութիւն սրբոց երկոտասան մարգարէից (Commentary on the Twelve Holy Prophets). Constantinople: Hasanp‘ashay Khan, 1825–1826. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
- Grigor Narekats‘i (Gregory of Narek). Գիրք աղօթից (Book of Prayers). Constantinople: Tparan Astuatsatrean, 1763. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
- Hakob, Armenian Patriarch of Constaninople. Մեկնութիւն աղօթից եւ երբողինաց սրբոյն Գրիգորի Նարեկացւոյ հրեշտակական վարդապետ (Commentary on the Prayers and Lamentations of Grigor Narekats‘i Divine Vardapet). Constantinople: Norakazm Tparan, 1745. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
- St. Cyril of Alexandria. Ձայն առ Բաղձալին (A Cry to the Desirable One). Constantinople: Tparan Karapeti ordi . . . Astuatsatwoy, 1717. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)
- Եւսեբի Պամփիլեա Կեսարացւոյ Ժամանակականք Երկմասնեայ (The Chronicon in two parts of Eusebius Pamphili [Bishop of] Caesarea), translated into Latin by Mkrtich‘ Vardapet Awgerian. Venice: San Lazzaro, 1818. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
- Փիլոնի Եբրայեցւոյ Բանք երեք չեւ ի լոյս ընծայեալք Ա. Բ. Յաղագս նախախնամութեան Գ. Յաղագս կենդանեաց (Three unedited treatises of Philo Judaeus. 1. 2: De providentia, 3: De animalibus), translated into Latin and edited by Mkrtich‘ Vardapet Awgerian. Venice: San Lazzaro, 1822. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
- Պատմութիւն կայսերն Փոնցիանոսի ե կնոջն եւ որդւոյ նորին Դիոկղետիանոսի եւ եօթինն իմաստասիրացն (The Tale of the Emperor Frontianus and of His Wife and His Son Diocletian and of the Seven Philosophers). Translated from Latin by Hakob T‘ok‘atets‘i (Hakob of Takat). Constantinople, 1740. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
- Mik‘ayel Ch‘amch‘ian (Michael Chamchian). Պատմութիւն Հայոց: Ի սկզբանէ աշխարհի մինչեւ ցամ տեառն 1784 (The History of Armenia from the Beginning of the World until 1784). vol. 1. Venice: Tparan Petros Vaghvazeants, 1784. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
- Hohannēs Ankiwrats‘i (John of Ankara).Նոր Աշխարհացոյց արարաեալ Աբրահամ Օրդէլիոսի Անդիվէբիացւոյ. Սպանիացւոց Փիլիպպոսի Արքայի երկրաչափէն (New Geography by Abraham Ortelius of Antwerp from the Measurements of the Spanish King Phillip). Manuscript copied by John of Ankara in 1618. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
- “The interior of Hagia Sophia from the door looking towards the main altar” from: Europe, part two, vol. five, of Աշխարհագրութիւն Չորից մասանց աշխարհի. Ասիոյ. Եւրոպիոյ. Ափրիկոյ. Եւ Ամերիկայ (Geography of the Four Parts of the World: Asia, Europe, Africa, and America). Venice: San Lazzaro, 1804. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (030.00.00)
- Elia Endasian. Ասիա ըստ նոր աշխարհագրական զննութեանց փոռագրեալ ի Վենետիկ ի Վանս Սրբոյն Ղազարու ի թուիս մերում 1236 (Asia According to New Geographical Observations, printed in Venice at the Monastery of San Lazzaro in 1236 of our era [AD 1787]). Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
- Elia Endasian. Ամերիկա ըստ նոր աշխարհագրական զննութեանց փոռագրեալ ի Վենետիկ ի Վանս Սրբոյն Ղազարու ի թուիս մերում 1236 (America According to New Geographical Observations, printed in Venice at the Monastery of San Lazzaro in 1236 of our era, [AD 1787]). Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
- Hovsēp (Joseph) Vardanean. Թարիխի Նաբոլէոն Պօնաբարթէ Իմբէրաթորու Ահալիի Ֆրանսա (The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France). Vol. 1. Constantinople: Miwhētisean Hōhannēsin T‘apkhanēsintē, 1855. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
- Serovbe Vardapet. Ցաղիկ գիտութեանց (The Flower of Knowledge). Moscow: Tparan Ogosteay Semereants‘, 1819. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
- Ալտինի Ասպետին գտած կրակի մէջ անվնաս մնալու գիւտը (The Discovery of How to Remain Uninjured in a Fire, Discovered by the Cavalier Aldini). Venice: San Lazzaro Press, 1831. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00)
- Nersēs Khosrov Tatean (Tatian). Նոր Օրլէանի բամբակի մշակութիւնը (The Cultivation of Cotton in New Orleans). Paris: Tpagrut‘iwn Aramean, 1859. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00)
- American Colony of Jerusalem. Interior of the Church of St. James, ca. 1934–1939. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00)
- Interior of the Beautiful Armenian Church, Jerusalem, Palestine. North Bennington, VT: H.C. White, 1901. Stereograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
- Գիրք պատմութեան սրբոյ եւ մեծի քաղաքիս աստուծոյ Երուսաղէմիս, եւ սրբոց տնօրիննայ տեղեաց Տեառն մերոյ Յիսուսի Քրիստոսի (History of the Great and Holy City of Jerusalem and of the Holy Places of Our Lord Jesus Christ). Constantinople: Tparan Hōhannisi ew Pōghosi, 1782. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
- Տետրակ Գովասանաց ի վերայ տնօրինական սուրբ ուխտատեղեաց որք են յաստուածահրաշ քաղաքն սուրբ Երուսաղէմ (Praise for All the Holy Sites of Pilgrimage which are in the Divine City of Holy Jerusalem). Jerusalem: St. James Monastery, 1858. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
- Harut‘iwn T‘. Hovhanēants‘.Պատմութիւն Նոր Ջուղայի որ յԱսպահան (History of New Julfa which is in Isfahan). Vol. 1. New Julfa: All Savior’s Monastery Publishing House, 1880. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00)
- T‘ovmas Khōjamalian (Thomas Khojamalian). Պատմութիւն Հնդկաց (History of India). Calcutta: Tparan Azgasiri Araratean, 1849. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (042.00.00)
- Մշակ (Cultivator, Tiller), vol. 1, no. 1. Tbilisi/Tiflis, January 1872. Facsimile from microfilm. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division Library of Congress (043.00.00)
- Rap‘ayel Patkanyan. Նոր Այբենարան Հայկական (New Armenian Alphabeticum). St. Petersburg: Tparan Eōnsoni, 1856. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
- Church calendars from Constantinople (1848 and 1920), Theodosia (1868), St. Petersburg (1866), Yerevan (1884), and Tiflis/Tbilisi (1873). Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00–050.00.00)
- Aṛak‘el Siwnets‘i (Arakel of Siwnik). Ադամգիրք (Book of Adam). Aleppo: Churches of Surb Astuatsatsin (the Holy Mother of God) and Surb Kaṛasunk‘ (the Holy Forty), 1653. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00)
- “To the Great Sparapet, Brave Vardan,” in Տաղք Մխիթարեան Վարդապետաց (Odes of the Mekhitarian Fathers). vol. 2. Venice: San Lazzaro, 1855. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00)
- Vahan Tēk‘ēyan (Vahan Tekeyan). Սէր. Քերթուածներ (1919–1933) (Love: Verses [1919–1933]). Paris, 1933. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00)
- Eghishe Charents‘. Եպիքական Լուսաբաց (Epic Dawn). Yerevan: Pethrat, 1930. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00)
- Պատմութիւն վարուց երանելւոյն Յօհաննու աւետարանչին (The History of the Acts of St. John the Evangelist). Manuscript copied in 1755. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00)
- Կանոնագիրք Հայոց (Armenian Book of Canons). Manuscript copied by Hakob Gēorgean (Gēorgian) in 1801. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
- Khachatur Abovyan (Abovian). Վերք Հայաստանի (Armenia’s Wounds).Yerevan: Hayastani Petakan Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1959. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (081.00.00)
- Աւետարան (Gospel Book). Manuscript copied probably in Constantinople in 1816. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
- “Concerning natural palmistry and the nature of and reasons for the lines in hands,” from Ձեռնազննութիւն բնական (Natural Palmistry). Manuscript compiled and copied by Awetis Varzhapet (Master) Pērpērean (Perperian)in Constantinople in 1894. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (058.00.00)
- E. Lalayan, ed. Ազգագրական Հանդէս (Ethnographic Journal). Book 1, 1895. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00)
- Ամերիկահայ Տարեցոյցը (The Armenian American Yearbook). Boston: Kilikia Tparan, 1913. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)
- Երեւանի յատակագիծը (Plan of Yerevan). Yerevan: probably Democratic Republic of Armenia, 1920. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (061.00.01)
- G. Khanjyan, illus. Second Song (The Morning of the Resurrection) from Hovhannes T‘oumanyan. Anush. Yerevan: Haypethrat, 1952. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
- Armen Tigranyan. Duet from act IV from Անուշ: օպերա 5 գործողությամբ 7 պատկերով: ըստ Հոհվ. Թումանյանի համանուն պոեմի (Anush: An Opera in 5 acts and 7 Scenes from a Poem of the Same Name by Hovhannes T‘umanyan). Yerevan: Haypethrat, 1954. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (063.00.00)
- Armen Tigranyan. Anush, with Gohar Gasparyan and the chorus and orchestra of the Armenian State Theatre of Opera and Ballet of the Armenian S.S.R. Monitor Collectors Series. New York: Monitor International Corporation, 1952. Music Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)
- I. A. Orbeli, ed. Սասունցի Դաւիթ: Հայկական ժողովրդական էպոս (David of Sasun: The Armenian Folk Epic). Illus. Hakob Kojoyan, Yerevan: Haypethrat, 1961. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (065.00.00)
- Հայաստանի հնագիտական հուշարձանները 4: ժայռապատկերներ: Գ.Հ. Կարախանյան, Պ.Գ. Սաֆյան, Սյունիքի Ժայռապատկերները Petroglyph from G. H. Karakhanyan and P. G. Safyan, The Petroglyphs of Syunik‘. Armenia’s Archaeological Monuments, vol. 4: Petroglyphs. Fascicle 1. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1970. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00)
- H. A. Orbeli, ed. Անի քաղաք (The City of Ani). Vol. 1 of Դիվան Հայ Վիմագրության. (Corpus of Armenian Inscriptions). Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1966. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00)
- Ոզնի (Ozni), March 1957. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (083.00.00)
- Vahē Hayk. Խարբերդ եւ անոր ոսկեղէն դաշտը. Յուշամատեան ազգային—պատմական—մշակութային եւ ազգագրական (Kharberd and her Golden Plain: Memorial And National Historical Industrial and Ethnological Memorial Book). New York: Kharberd Armenian Patriotic Union, 1959. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00)
- Manuscript copied in Cilician Armenia, 1287–1288 (Manuscript 98) from Michael Stone, Dickran Kouymjian, and Henning Lehmann. Album of Armenian Paleography. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2002. General Collections, Library of Congress (069.00.00)
- Hovhannes (Ivan) Ayvazovski. The Mkhitarists Receive Byron on the Island of San Lazzaro, in Shahen Khachatryan. Հովհաննես Այվազովսկի (Hovhannes Ayvazovski).Yerevan: Tigran Mets Publishing House, 2009. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (070.00.00)
- Abullah Frères. Galata Tower in Constantinople, ca. 1880–1893. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (072.00.00)
- Vartan Hampikian. The Island of Akhtamar in Lake Van, early twentieth century. Facsimile. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (073.00.00)
- Silver christening bowl, nineteenth century. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress. Gift of Seta Northrup, Aram Mardirosian, and Sona Olson. (079.00.00)
- Armenian needle lace, Karberd, ca. 1915. Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress Gift of Seta Northrup, Aram Mardirosian, and Sona Olson (080.00.00)
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