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- The History of Matenadaran
The Matenadaran is one of the oldest and richest book-depositories in the world. Its collection of about 17000 manuscripts includes almost all of the areas of ancient and medieval Armenian culture and sciences - history, geography, grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, mathematics, cosmography, theory of calendar, alchemy, chemistry, translations, literature, chronology, art history, miniature, music and theatre, as well as manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Greek, Syrian, Latin, Ethiopian, Indian, Japanese, other.
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- Some Unique Items
THE OLDEST FRAGMENTS
The oldest examples of the Armenian manuscripts date back to the 5th-6th centuries. Since then complete manuscripts were not preserved. They have reached the present times in the form of fragments. Each of them is a witness of a lost manuscript. A part of this fragments survived as fly-leaves stuck to the bindings of the manuscripts. The medieval book-finders often sewed some leaves of older and unuseful manuscripts between the cover and the first page of the manuscripts to protect the writing from permanent contact with the binding . Many specimens of the earlier copies of Armenian and foreign authors were preserved thanks to such fly-leaves. They are of great scientific value today. A great part of fragments reached us separate from the manuscripts. Very often they were found unexpectedly here and there, in caves, ruins or buried in the ground. There are separate pages torn from the manuscripts hundreds of years ago, that were carefully preserved and passed from generation to generation.
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- Chronology
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- Heads of The Matenadaran
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