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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Manuscripts, lost due to Armenian Genocide, may exceed 30,000

Manuscripts, lost due to Armenian Genocide, may exceed 30,000

YEREVAN, MARCH 5, ARMENPRESS: Due to the Armenian Genocide, besides the enormous human losses, the Armenians had also material culture losses, including the ancient Armenian manuscripts. The number of the manuscripts, lost because of the Armenian Genocide, is about 30,000. Armenpress talked about the lost and survived manuscripts, as well as our activities to return the lost manuscripts, with Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan, the Chief Warder of Matenadaran.
Gevorg Ter-Vardanyan stated that the philologists began the description and the record of the manuscripts in 1880s. “The number of the manuscripts, described in the media or the scientific literature, which have been lost after the Armenian Genocide and we do not know if they still exist, is more than 9,000. From 1880 to 1915 it is 30-35 years, which is quite a short period of time to implement recording. Taking into account the fact that every church in the Western Armenia’s settlements should have a manuscript book, the number of 30,000 may be smaller than it is in reality. What has happened to them, we do not know. They could have had different destinies”, - said the Chief Warder of Matenadaran.




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