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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ZarouiPogossianVardan Arewelc‘i’s Colophon on the Mongols and Its Sourceshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/CYCP9ALQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/CYCP9ALQhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/CYCP9ALQFestschrift in Honor of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s 75th AnniversaryYerevanMatenadaran, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts2021261-296Levon Ter-Petrossian has contributed to numerous fields within Armenian and Syriac philology and history, with an emphasis on Armeno-Syriac interactions. Ter-Petrossian’s book on Armeno-Syriac literary connections during the Cilician period remains fundamental for this area of enquiry. In this paper I wish to make a tribute to his scholarship both on the Armenian Cilician history and Armeno-Syriac connections by examining a specific source relevant to these areas of study. This article will draw attention to a short but complex text – a <i>Colophon </i>– written by the thirteenth-century renowned Armenian theologian, historian and monastic teacher Vardan Vardapet Arewelc‘i on the Mongols. It was penned in 1248 while Vardan resided in Cilicia and was involved in the translation of the <i>Chronicle </i>of Michael the Syrian to Armenian. The <i>Colophon </i>was, indeed, appended to that translation. The article will trace how Michael the Syrian’s representation of the Seljuqs was used by Vardan Arewelc‘i to describe the Mongols. It will also explore a thirteenth-century version of the <i>Vision of St. Nersēs the Great</i> as another important source of inspiration for Vardan Arewelc‘i’s <i>Colophon</i>.
Pogossian, Zaroui. “Vardan Arewelc‘i’s Colophon on the Mongols and Its Sources.” In Festschrift in Honor of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s 75th Anniversary, 261–96. Yerevan: Matenadaran, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, 2021.
Zaroui Pogossian, Vardan Arewelc‘i’s Colophon on the Mongols and Its Sources, in Festschrift in Honor of Levon Ter-Petrossian’s 75th Anniversary (Yerevan: Matenadaran, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, 2021), 261–96.CiliciaJacobitesMichael the SyrianMongolsSyriac influence [Armenia]TurksVII-XVIII CEXIII CEhistoriography