Peter Charanis
Sirarpie Der Nersessian
Igor M. Diakonoff
Rev. Fr. Krikor Vardapet Maksoudian
Hagop A. Manandian
Vladimir Minorsky
Matti Moosa
Armen Petrosyan
Boris Piotrovsky
A.H. Sayce
Hovann H. Simonian
Aram Ter-Ghewondyan
Cyril Toumanoff

Norman H. Baynes
E. W. Brooks
E. A. Wallis Budge
J. B. Bury
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
O. M. Dalton
Charles Diehl
Robert Drews

Ellsworth Huntington
Guy Le Strange
Daniel David Luckenbill
E. A. Speiser
Michael Rostovtzeff
W. W. Tarn

Many of the 19-20th century reference works listed below were collectors' items until Google Books and others made them available as free pdf files. They are free and also priceless.

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Bibliographia Caucasica et Transcaucasica, volumes 1 and 2 (St. Petersburg, 1874-1876) compiled by M. Miansarof. Invaluable, extensive bibliographical information about the Caucasus and Transcaucasus. Preface and tables of contents in French and Russian. Categories include: Natural history, ethnography, peoples, expeditions, antiquities and inscriptions, numismatics, history, religion, ecclesiastical literature. 873 pdf pages. File size: 33.5 MB.

Haykakan matenagitut'iwn [Armenian Bibliography] (Venice, 1883) by Armenak Salmaslian. Bibliography of Armenological works and Armenian-language literary works published from 1565 through 1883. 761 pdf pages. File size: 21.9 MB.

Armenische Grammatik (Leipzig, 1897) by the German philologist Heinrich Hubschmann (1848-1908). An encyclopedic German-language study of the probable origin of numerous Armenian words listing, in dictionary fashion, Persian, Syriac, and Greek loanwords, followed by native Armenian vocabulary. 611 pdf pages. File size: 15.2 MB.

Armenian translation of a predecessor work of the above, by Hubschmann and C. Brockelmann: Usumnasirut'iwnk' hayere'ni p'oxar'eal barits' [Studies of Armenian Loanwords] (Vienna, 1894). 1. H. Hubschmann, Semitic; 2. C. Brockelmann, Greek; 3. H. Hubschmann, Native Armenian. 233 pdf pages. Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 15. File size: 21.8 MB.

Die Umschreibung der iranischen Sprachen und des Armenischen, by Heinrich Hubschmann (Leipzig, 1882), in 54 pdf pages. File size: 1.1 MB.

Armenische Studien, by Heinrich Hubschmann (Leipzig, 1883), in 116 pdf pages. File size: 2.2 MB.

Persische Studien, by Heinrich Hubschmann (Strassburg, 1895), in 315 pdf pages. File size: 7.9 MB.

The premier dictionary of Classical Armenian, Nor bar'girk' Haykazean lezui (Venice, 1836-1837), is available in two volumes. Classical Armenian to Modern Armenian. This magnificent achievement, the work of Gabrie'l Awetik'ean, Khach'atur Siwrme'lean, and Mkrtich' Awgerean, contains some 50,000 words. These pdf files are large: volume 1 (ա-կ) , 112.1 MB; volume 2 (հ-ֆ), 66.6 MB.

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Eranshahr nach der Geographie des Ps. Moses Xoranac'i (Berlin, 1901), by Joseph Marquart/Markwart. Classical Armenian text, German translation and commentary about the districts of Iran in the famous Geography [Ashkharats'oyts'], a 7th century work by the Armenian polymath Anania of Shirak (610-685). In Marquart's day this work was attributed to the historian Moses of Xoren. However, the reassigned authorship in no way compromises its information or Marquart's study. An invaluable work for Iranian, and Armenian studies, as well as for the study of Asian geography. File size: 17.4 MB.

Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen by Heinrich Hubschmann (Strasbourg, 1904). This is a listing and morphological analysis of Old Armenian toponyms and is invaluable for studying the historical geography and civilizations of the Armenian Highlands. File size: 13 MB.

Armenian translation of the above: Hin hayots' teghwoy annunnere [Ancient Armenian Place Names], by Heinrich Hubschmann. Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 53 (Vienna, 1907). File size: 10.3 MB.

Armenian Toponyms by Nina G. Garsoian. Tables of the provinces, cities, towns, villages, mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, and seas in historical Armenian states and areas of Armenian settlement in Asia Minor including map and literary references, prepared by Nina G. Garsoian as an accompaniment (Appendix V "Toponymy", pp. 137*-246*) to her 1970 translation of N. Adontz's study Armenia in the Period of Justinian (1908). Tables provide (where available) Classical Armenian, Greek, Latin, and modern designations. Included is Garsoian's updated Bibliography (pp. 247*-303*) for this important work of Adontz on the lords (naxarars) of Ancient Armenia. Invaluable tool for the study of historical Armenia. Searchable pdf.

Armeniia v epokhu IUstiniana [Armenia in the Period of Justinian], by Nicholas Adontz (St. Petersburg, 1908), in 544 pdf pages. File size: 21.1 MB.

English translation of the above, in sections:

Historico-Geographical Survey of Western Armenia by Nicholas Adontz. These sections from Nicholas Adontz's celebrated work Armenia in the Period of Justinian (1908) treat the historical geography of parts of Western Armenia. English translation, updated notes and bibliography, and new appendices by Nina G. Garsoian (1970). Included are Chapters 2-4 (pages 25-74), their Footnotes (pages 386-399), Appendix V "Toponymy" (pages 137*-246*), and full Bibliography (pages 247*-303*). In these chapters Adontz describes: 1. The "satrapies" of Asthianene and Balabitene, Sophene, Anzitene-Tsovk', Xarberd, Ashmushat, Anzita; 2. Armenia Interior: Xordzayn, Paghnatun, Mzur, Daranaghik', Kemah/Ekegheats', Erzincan, Derjan, Managhik, Karin, Saghagom, Aghiwn-Analibna, Tzanika; 3. Lesser Armenia/Armenia Minor: districts of Orbalisene, Aitulane, Hairetike, Orsene, Orbisene, and their chief cities. File size: 13.7 MB.

also: The Origin of the Naxarar System. These sections from Nicholas Adontz's Armenia in the Period of Justinian (1908) treat the history of the lordly (naxarar) system on the Armenian Highlands. English translation, updated notes and bibliography, and new appendices by Nina G. Garsoian (1970). Included are Chapters 9-15 (pages 165-372), their Footnotes (pages 433-529), Appendices I-V (pages 1*-246*), and full Bibliography (247*-303*). Eastern Armenia: Chapter 9, Armenia—the Marzpanate; Chapter 10, A Quantitative Analysis of the Naxarardoms; Chapter 11, Territorial Analysis of the Naxarar System; Chapter 12, The Naxarar System and the Church. The Origin of the Naxarar System: Chapter 13, Preliminary Excursus; Chapter 14, The Tribal Bases of the Naxarar System; Chapter 15, The Feudal Bases of the Naxarar System. File size: 43.5 MB.

The Reform of Justinian in Armenia. These sections from Nicholas Adontz's Armenia in the Period of Justinian (1908) describe the substance, intent, and effects of the reforms of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (A.D. 527-565) in Armenia. English translation, updated notes and bibliography, and new appendices by Nina G. Garsoian (1970). Included are the Introduction (pages 1-6), Chapter 1 (pages 7-24 ), Chapters 5-8 (pages 75-164), their Footnotes, Appendices I-V (pages 1*-246*), and full Bibliography (247*-303*). Chapter 1, The Political Division of Armenia; Chapter 5, Administration: Western Armenia before Justinian; Chapter 6, The Reform of Justinian in Armenia; Chapter 7, The Civilian Reorganization of Armenia; Chapter 8, The Significance of Justinian's Reform in Armenia. File size: 29.6 MB.

A Manual of Ancient Geography (London, 1881) by the renowned cartographer Heinrich Kiepert, G. A. Macmillan, translator. This extract, chapters 3-5 (Western or Anterior Asia: Iran, Armenia, the Caucasus and adjacent areas) includes descriptions of the physical features, soil, climate and history of Ariana (Iran), eastern and western; North-western Anterior Asia (Armenia, Regions of the Caucasus, Asia Minor); and Southern Anterior Asia (Regions of the Euphrates and Tigris, Syria, Palestine, Israel). Graphics in zipped HTML files. File size: 6.2 MB. A pdf version of the entire Manual may be downloaded here. File size: 7.1 MB.

The Historical Geography of Asia Minor, (London, 1890; reprinted numerous times) by the distinguished archaeologist and New Testament scholar W. M. Ramsay (1851-1939). 538 pdf pages. Unfortunately, the book's maps are not present. However, Ramsay's maps are available on the Maps page of this website.

V. Chapot, La frontière de l'Euphrate de Pompée à la conquête arabe (Paris, 1907). A detailed study of the historical geography and ethnography of western historical Armenia from Roman times through the 7th century A.D. File size: 14.4 MB.

Karl Güterbock, Römisch-Armenien und die Römischen Satrapieen im vierten bis sechsten Jahrhundert (Königsberg, 1900). File size: 2.4 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Karl Güterbock's Hr'ovme'akan hayastan ew hr'ovme'akan satraput'iwnnere" d-z darerun [Byzantine Armenia and the Byzantine Satrapies in the 4th-6th centuries] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 74 (Vienna, 1914). File size: 3.5 MB.

Pascal Asdourian, Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen Armenien und Rom (Venice, 1911). File size: 6.7 MB.

Karl Güterbock, Byzanz und Persien in ihren diplomatisch-völkerrechtlichen beziehungen im zeitalter Justinians (Berlin, 1906). File size: 2.3 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Karl Güterbock's Biwzandion ew Parskastan ew anonts' diwanagitakan ew azgayin-irawakan yaraberut'iwnnere" Yustinianu zhamanak [Byzantium and Persia and Their Diplomatic and National-Juridical Relations in the Time of Justinian] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 62 (Vienna, 1911). Unfortunately, the title page is mangled, and pages 68-69 are missing. File size: 3.8 MB.

W. Tomaschek, Sasun und das Quellengebiet des Tigris (Wien, 1896). File size: 2.6 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, W. Tomaschek's Sasun ew Tigrisi aghberats' sahmannere" [Sasun and the Sources of the Tigris]. Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 21 (Vienna, 1896). File size: 1.3 MB.

Theodor Nöldeke, Aufsätze zur persischen Geschichte (Leipzig, 1887). File size: 3.6 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Theodor Nöldeke's Patmut'iwn Sasanean te'rut'ean [History of the Sasanian Empire] (Vagharshapat, 1896). File size: 2.2 MB.

K. Patkanov/Patkanian, Essai d'une histoire de la dynastie des Sassanides, d'àpres les renseignements fournis par les historiens arméniens, in 149 pdf pages. This valuable monograph, which appeared in Journal Asiatique ser. VI, vol. VII (1866) pp. 101-238, translates and examines passages from Classical Armenian historical sources of the 5-13th centuries for information on the dynasty of the Sasanians/Sassanians in Persia/Iran (A.D. 224-651). Historians include: Agat'angeghos, P'awstos Buzand, Koriwn, Ghazar P'arpets'i, Eghishe, Sebeos, Ghewond, Zenob Glak, Moses of Khoren, John Mamikonean, John Kat'oghikos, T'ovma Artsruni, Step'annos Asoghik, Movses Dasxurantsi, Samuel of Ani, Mxit'ar of Ayrivank', Vardan Arewelts'i, Kirakos of Ganjak, and Step'annos Orbelean. The monograph was subsequently published as a separate book. The article is a French translation done by E. Prud'homme of K. Patkanian's Russian work. File size: 5.2 MB.

H. Gelzer, Die Genesis der byzantinischen Themenverfassung (Leipzig, 1899). File size: 5.5 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, H. Gelzer's Skzbnaworut'iwnk' biwzandean banakat'emeru drut'ean [Beginnings of the Byzantine Military Theme System] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 44 (Vienna, 1903). File size: 3.3 MB.

H. Gelzer, Hamar'o'tut'iwn Biwzandakan kaysrneri patmut'ean [Concise History of the Byzantine Emperors] (Vagharshapat, 1901) 526 pdf pages. File size: 13.1 MB.

Joseph Marquart/Markwart, Die armenischen Markgrafen (bdeashxk') Exkurs I from Eranshahr nach der Geographie des Ps. Moses Xoranac'i (Berlin, 1901), pp. 165-179. File size: 12.1 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Joseph Marquart/Markwart's Hay bdeashxk' [The Armenian Border Lords] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 43 (Vienna, 1903). File size: 1.2 MB.

Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin, Recherches sur les populations primitives et les plus anciennes traditions du Caucase (Paris, 1847), 220 pdf pages. File size: 5.2 MB.

Simon Weber, Ararat in der Bibel, from Theol. Quartalschrift, LXXXIII. Jahrg., 1901, III. Quartalheft, p. 321-374. File size: 2.4 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Simon Weber's Ararate" surb grots' me'j [Ararat in the Bible] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 39 (Vienna, 1901). File size: 3.3 MB.

Maximillian Streck, Armenien, Kurdistân und Westpersien, nach den babylonisch-assyrischen keilinschriften (Munich, 1898). File size: 1.5 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Maximillian Streck's Hayastan k'rdastan ew arewmtean parskastan babelakan-asorestaneay sephagreru hamematn [Armenia, Kurdistan, and Western Persia according to Babylonian-Assyrian Inscriptions] Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 50 (Vienna, 1904). File size: 3.8 MB.

Yushardzan/Huschardzan: Festschrift aus Anlass des 100jährigen Bestandes der Mechitharisten-Kongregation in Wien (1811-1911) und des 25 Jahrganges der philologischen Monatsschrift "Handes amsorya" (1887-1911). This volume (Vienna, 1911) contains articles in German and Armenian on topics including history, linguistics, ethnography, philology, and mythology by some of the most prominent Armenists of the 19th-early 20th centuries. 470 pdf pages. File size: 23.3 MB.

Ghukas Inchichian's three volume Armenian study Hnaxosut'iwn ashkharhagrakan Hayastaneayts' ashkharhi [Antiquities of Armenian Geography] (Venice, 1835). vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3; and the same author's Storagrut'iwn hin Hayastaneayts' [Description of Ancient Armenia] (Venice, 1822). File size: 41.6 MB.

Anton Garagashean's Armenian study K'nnakan patmut'iwn hayots' [Critical History of the Armenians] (Tiflis, 1895). 1269 pdf pages. File size: 26 MB.

Step'annos Palasanean's Patmut'iwn hayots' skzbits' minch'ew mer o'rere" [History of the Armenians from the Beginning to Our Own Times] (Tiflis, 1902). 632 pdf pages. File size: 14.4 MB.

Nerses Sargisean's Teghagrut'iwnk' i P'ok'r ew Mets Hays [Itineraries in Greater and Lesser Armenia] (Venice, 1864). File size: 14.4 MB.

Haykakan hin dprut'ean patmut'iwn [History of Ancient Armenian Literature] (Venice, 1897). This classic study describes works of Armenian literature from the 4th through the 13th centuries. 1011 pdf pages. File size: 25 MB.

Matenadaran haykakan t'argmanut'eants' naxneats' (dar d-zhg) [Catalog of Ancient Armenian Translations (4-13th centuries)] (Venice, 1889) describes works of foreign literature that were translated into Armenian through the 13th century. 827 pdf pages. File size: 18 MB.

Patmut'iwn haykakan tpagrut'ean skzbnaworut'ene'n minch' ar' mez [History of Armenian Printing from Its Inception to Our Day] (1513-1895) (Venice, 1895). 297 pdf pages. File size: 4.8 MB.

Asorestaneay ew Parsik sepagir ardzanagrut'iwnk' [Assyrian and Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions] (Venice, 1901). 264 pdf pages. Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 40. File size: 3.8 MB.

Les inscriptions cunéiformes urartiques transcrites avec une triple traduction interlinéaire en arménien classique, en latin et en français, suivies d'un glossaire et d'une grammaire (Venice, 1900). 568 pdf pages. File size: 29.7 MB.

Histoire documentaire de l'Arménie des âges du paganisme (1410 av.-305 apr. J.-C.), (Rome, 1917) in two volumes: volume 1, 429 pdf pages. File size: 11.1 MB; volume 2, 437 pdf pages. File size: 11.7 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Eruand Ter-Minaseants' Hayots' ekeghets'u yaraberut'iwnnere" Asorwots' ekeghets'ineri het [The Relations of the Armenian Church with Syrian Churches] (Ejmiatsin, 1908).

Meliksedek Murateants' Patmut'iwn hayastaneayts' ar'ak'elakan surb ekeghets'woy [History of the Holy Armenian Apostolic Church] (Jerusalem, 1872), 747 pdf pages. Duplicate pages in the scan. File size: 17.9 MB.

Armenian translation of the above, Arshak Ter-Mikelian Hayastaneayts' ekeghets'in ew biwzandean zhoghovots' paragayk' [The Armenian Church and the Byzantine Councils] (Moscow, 1892).

Arminiya, entry from Encyclopaedia of Islam, (Leiden, 1986, repr.) volume 1, pp. 634-650. Authors include M. Canard, Cl. Cahen, and J. Deny. 20 pdf pages with map. Arminiya.

Mkrtitsch Ghazarian, Armenien unter der arabischen Herrschaft bis zur Entstehung des Bagratidenreiches (Marburg, 1903). 98 pdf pages.

Bagrat Xalat'ean/Xalat'eants', Arabats'i matenagrer Hayastani masin [Arab Authors on Armenia] (Vienna, 1919), 152 pdf pages. Azgayin matenadaran series, volume 84. File size: 4 MB.

Robert W. Thomson, Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in Armenian Literary Tradition, in 32 pdf pages. Article from Armenian Studies in Memoriam Haig Berberian, Dickran Kouymjian, editor (Lisbon, 1986), pp. 829-858. File size: 1.9 MB.

J. Laurent, L'Arménie entre Byzance et l'Islam depuis la conquête arabe jusqu'en 836 (Paris, 1919), 471 searchable pdf pages. File size: 27.5 MB.

Fragments de géographes et d'historiens Arabes et Persans inédit, relatifs aux anciens peuples du Caucase et de la Russie méridionale. This study by the noted philologist Charles-Francois Defremery (1822-1888) was serialized in Journal Asiatique, 4th series (Paris, 1849-1851), in volumes 13, 14, 16, and 17. It includes French translations of Arabic and Persian historical works and geographies describing the peoples, tribes, and states of the Caucasus and south Russia. Contents include extracts from: Abu al-Bekri on the Pechenegs, Khazars, Borthas, Bulgars of the Volga and the Danube; from Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khaldun describing conflicts involving the Armenians, Georgians, and other peoples of the Caucasus during the Turco-Mongol invasions of the Saljuqs, Khwarazmians, Mongols, Qipchaqs and others (11-13th centuries); extracts from the travels of Ibn Battuta; from Khondemir and Mirkhond about the Qipchaqs and Shirvanshahs. Download is 270 pdf pages and includes invaluable scholarly notes by this careful historian. File size: 13.6 MB.

Haybusak [Armenian Botany] (Venice, 1895). An encyclopedic work in Armenian on the flora of the Armenian Highlands. This massive study (697 pdf pages) contains alphabetical entries for the major plants, trees, shrubs, as well as fungi. Many entries are accompanied by gorgeous, life-like drawings. There is also precious anecdotal evidence of these plants' usage by the Armenians of the 19th century and before. Latin, French, Turkish and Arab names (the last two in Armenian characters) appear in cross-referenced indices at the back. This is a major source for the study of Armenian ethnobotany. File size: 17.3 MB.

Hayastan yar'aj k'an zlineln Hayastan [Armenia before Becoming Armenia] (Venice, 1904), 291 pdf pages. Alishan's remarkable ideas about the prehistory of the Armenian Highlands, mostly based on the Old Testament and Armenian legends. File size: 5.5 MB.

Hayapatum [Armeniaca] vol. 1 (Venice, 1901), 985 pdf pages. File size: 17.3 MB.; vols. 2-3 (Venice, 1901), 1042 pdf pages. File size: 21.2 MB.

Teghagir hayots' metsats' [Topography of Greater Armenia] (Venice, 1855), 121 pdf pages. File size: 18.5 MB.

Hin hawatk' kam het'anosakan kro'nk' Hayots' [The Ancient Faith or Pagan Religion of the Armenians] (Venice, 1910), 566 pdf pages. Earlier, this work had been serialized from 1895 in the journal Hande's Amso'reay. Topics include: nature worship, worship of celestial bodies, animal worship, monsters, spirits, mythological heroes, pagan gods, magic, charms/divination, the next world, and cult objects. A major source for the folk beliefs, customs, myths, and history of the Armenian Highlands. File size: 28.2 MB.

Arshaloys k'ristoneut'ean Hayots' [The Dawn of Christianity among the Armenians] (Venice, 1901), 304 pdf pages. File size: 4.2 MB.

Shnorhali ew paragay iwr [Shnorhali and His Times] (Venice, 1873). A detailed study of the life, times, and works of Saint Nerses Shnorhali ("The Gracious" or "The Graceful") (1098-1173), kat'oghikos of the Armenian Church (1166-1173), poet, theologian, and philologist, in 641 pdf pages. File size: 14.6 MB.

Shirak, Teghagrut'iwn patkerats'oyts' [Illustrated Topographical Study of Shirak] (Venice, 1881), in 217 pdf pages. File size: 51.9 MB.

Sisakan, Teghagrut'iwn Siwneats' ashxarhi [Sisakan, Topography of the Land of Siwnik'] (Venice, 1893). Alishan's thorough study of the twelve districts of Siwink' in eastern historical Armenia. It includes topography, geography, natural resources, flora, fauna, history, current conditions, customs, folklore, and much more. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, and numerous photographs unavailable elsewhere. 642 pdf pages. File size: 70.8 MB.

Assises d'Antioche par Sempad le Connétable (Venice, 1876). Original grabar text and French translation. File size: 6.5 MB.

Léon le Magnifique, roi de Sissouan ou de l'Arméno-Cilicie (Venice, 1888). 428 pdf pages. File size: 13 MB.

Sissouan ou l'Arméno-Cilicie (Venice, 1899). 566 pdf pages. File size: 66.6 MB.

Hay Venet, kam yare"nch'ut'iwnk' hayots' ew Venetay i ZhG ew i ZhE darn [Relations between the Armenians and Venice in the 13th-15th Centuries] parts 1 and 2 (Venice, 1896). Part 2 continues to the 18th century. 637 pdf pages. File size: 14.8 MB.

Italian version of the above: L'Armeno-Veneto (Venice, 1893) part 1, 13th-14th centuries. 358 pdf pages. File size: 8.3 MB.

Victor Langlois:

Collection des historiens anciens et modernes de l'Arménie, volume 1 (Paris, 1867). Mar Apas Catina, Bardesane, Agathange, Faustus de Byzance, Léboubna d'Édesse, Zénob de Glag, Jean Mamigonien. File size: 24.5 MB.

Collection des historiens anciens et modernes de l'Arménie, volume 2 (Paris, 1869). Gorioun, Moise de Khorèn, Élisée, Lazar de Pharbe, Eznik de Goghp (extrait du ch. II). File size: 25.8 MB.

Documents pour servir a l'histoire des Lusignans de la petite Arménie (1342-1394) (Paris, 1859). Langlois' valuable study of the French noble family of Lusignan with branches in Cyprus, Antioch, and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia. After the murder of the Hetumid Leon IV in 1341, his cousin Guy de Lusignan was elected king of Cilicia. The pro-Latin family tried unsuccessfully to impose Catholicism in the country, which led to constant civil unrest. Lusignan kings of Cilicia included: Constantine II (1342-1344); Constantine III (1344-1362); Constantine IV (1362-1373); and Leo V (1374-1393). The Cilician Armenian kingdom was inherited by the Cypriot Lusignans in 1393. 71 pdf pages. File size: 2.3 MB.

Chronique de Michel le Grand patriarche des Syriens Jacobites (Venice, 1868). This is a French translation of the medieval Armenian version of Michael the Syrian's Chronicle. Langlois used most of the manuscripts published in the later Classical Armenian editions of Jerusalem 1870 and 1871. His edition is very readable and accompanied by extensive scholarly notes. 399 pdf pages. File size: 17.2 MB.

Mémoire sur la vie et les écrits du prince Grégoire de Magistros, duc de la Mésopotamie, auteur arménien du XIe siècle. This study by Langlois appeared in Journal Asiatique XIII 6(1869) pp. 5-64. It is an account of the life and works of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni (990-1058), an Armenian scholar, author, translator, and political functionary. After serving as governor-general of the city of Edessa, Magistros was named Duke of Mesopotamia by the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachus. Throughout his life Magistros collected ancient texts, made translations from Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, and trained a generation of scholarly ecclesiastics. 61 pdf pages. File size: 3.5 MB.

Inscriptions grecques, romaines, byzantines et arméniennes de la Cilicie (Paris, 1854). File size: 1.7 MB.

Le trésor des chartes d'Arménie, ou, Cartulaire de la chancellerie royale des Roupéniens: comprenant tous les documents relatifs aux établissements fondés en Cilicie par les ordres de chevalerie institués pendant les Croisades et par les républiques marchandes de l'Italie, etc. (Venice, 1863). File size: 12 MB.

Notice sur le couvent arménien de l'île Saint Lazare de Venise (Venice, 1863), in 94 pdf pages. File size: 1.5 MB.

Description of the Armenian Monastery on the Island of St. Lazarus-Venice, followed by a compendium of the history and literature of Armenia. English translation of Langlois' French original (Venice, 1874). File size: 3.5 MB.

Numismatique genéralé de l'Arménie. Langlois' study is preceded by another noteworthy monograph, Édouard Dulaurier's Bibliothèque historique arménienne ou Choix des principaux historiens arméniens traduits en français et accompagnés de notes historiques et géographiques, collection destinée à servir de complément aux Chroniqueurs byzantins et slavons (Paris, 1859). File size: 7.1 MB.

Numismatique de l'Arménie au moyen âge (Paris, 1855), in 146 pdf pages. File size: 3.4 MB.

Numismatique de la Géorgie au moyen âge (Paris, 1852), in 68 pdf pages. File size: 2.3 MB.

Essai de classification des suites monétaires de la Géorgie (Paris, 1860), in 179 pdf pages. File size: 4.9 MB.

Monnaies inédites ou peu connues de la Cilicie (Paris, 1854), in 70 pdf pages. File size: 2.5 MB.

Voyage à Sis, capitale de l'Arménie au Moyen Age (Paris, 1855), 51 pdf pages. 1.1 MB.

Voyage dans la Cilicie et dans les montagnes du Taurus exécuté pendant les années 1852-1853. (Paris, 1861). File size: 17.5 MB.

Rapport sur l'Exploration Archéologique de la Cilicie et de la Petite Arménie pendant les années 1853-1854 (Paris, 1854). File size: 1.9 MB.

Marie-Félicité Brosset:

Histoire de la Siounie par Stephannos Orbelian, volumes 1 and 2 (St. Petersburg, 1864-1866). 513 pdf pages. File size: 21 MB.

Histoire chronologique par Mkhit'ar Ayrivanets'i (St. Petersburg, 1869). File size: 11.8 MB.

Deux historiens arméniens (St. Petersburg, 1870). Kiracos de Gantzac et Oukhtanes. File size: 21 MB.

Collection d'historiens arméniens (St. Petersburg, 1876), tome II. Zakaria: Mémoires historiques sur les Sofis, Cartulaires de Iohannon-Vank. Hassan-Dchalaliants: Histoire d'Aghovanie. Davith-beg. Abraham de Crete: Histoire de Nadir-chah. Samouel d'Ani: Tables chronologiques. Souvenirs d'un officier russe. File size: 31 MB.

Les ruines d'Ani capitale de l'Arménie sous les rois Bagratides, aux X et XI s Histoire et description vols. I and II (St. Petersburg, 1860-1861). Invaluable study of the Armenian city of Ani by the French Orientalist and translator Marie-Felicite Brosset (1802-1880). Includes a thorough history and description with inscriptions and excerpts from historical sources, personal observations, diagrams, and genealogical tables. 205 pdf pages, plates absent. Photographs of most of the structures described in Brosset's work are available in another download (see above link under Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Armenia and the Byzantine Empire) File size: 13.1 MB.

Rapports sur un voyage archéologique dans la Géorgie et dans l'Arménie (St. Petersburg, 1849-51). 996 pdf pages. File size: 44.2 MB.

Inscriptions géorgiennes et autres, recueillies par le Père Nersès Sargisian et expliquées par M. Brosset (St. Petersburg, 1864). 40 pdf pages. File size: 2.5 MB.

Histoire de Géorgie (St. Petersburg, 1849-1850) in two volumes: tome 1, 716 pdf pages. File size: 47.9 MB; tome 2, 596 pdf pages. File size: 30.6 MB. This is Brosset's translation of the Georgian K'artlis C'xovreba [Life/History of Georgia], made from the King Vaxtang VI Redaction (1703/61).

Additions et éclaircissements à l'Histoire de la Géorgie (St. Petersburg, 1851), 518 pdf pages. Contains Chronique arménienne ("Juansher") among other works. File size: 40.5 MB.

Description géographique de la Géorgie, par le Tsarévitch Wakhoucht (St. Petersburg, 1842), 606 pdf pages. Georgian text and French translation by Brosset. File size: 28 MB.

Mélanges Asiatiques tirés du Bulletin de L'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (St. Petersburg, 1863), Tome IV. (1860-1863), 788 pdf pages. Articles about Armenian and Georgian topics by Brosset, Langlois, Patkanian, and others. File size: 19.2 MB.

Bibliographie analytique des ouvrages de Monsieur Marie-Félicité Brosset, par Laurent Brosset (St. Petersbourg, 1887), 436 pdf pages. File size: 21.2 MB.

Édouard Dulaurier:

Les Mongols d'apres les historiens armeniens; fragments traduits sur les textes originaux. This study appeared in Journal Asiatique 11(1858) pp. 192-255, 426-473, 481-508 and JA 16(1860) pp. 273-322. The author, the noted historian, Egyptologist, and Armenist, Édouard Dulaurier (1808-1881), translated extensive extracts from two invaluable Armenian historical sources of the 13th century pertaining to the Mongols: Kirakos Ganjakets'i and Vardan Arewelts'i ("the Easterner"). 192 pdf pages. File size: 54.7 MB.

Numismatique genéralé de l'Arménie. Langlois' study is preceded by another noteworthy monograph, Édouard Dulaurier's Bibliothèque historique arménienne ou Choix des principaux historiens arméniens traduits en français et accompagnés de notes historiques et géographiques, collection destinée à servir de complément aux Chroniqueurs byzantins et slavons (Paris, 1859). File size: 7.1 MB.

Recherches sur la chronologie arménienne, I. La chronologie technique (Paris, 1859), all published. 460 pdf pages. File size: 21.8 MB.

Recherches sur la formation de la langue arménienne (Paris, 1871), 188 pdf pages. This is a French translation of K. Patkanov's Russian study, which Dulaurier annotated. File size: 5.7 MB.

Etude sur l'organisation politique, religieuse et administrative du royaume de la Petite-Arménie, Journal Asiatique, 5th ser., XVII, XVIII (1861), published as a separate monograph in 1862. 160 pdf pages. Unfortunately, a genealogical table at the end is mangled. File size: 4.3 MB.

Histoire, dogmes, traditions et liturgie de l'Église Arménienne Orientale (Paris, 1859), 211 pdf pages. File size: 4.9 MB.

Bibliothèque historique arménienne, ou choix des principaux historiens arméniens, (Paris, 1858), in 588 pdf pages. French translation of Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle and its continuation by Gregory the Priest to 1162. File size: 20.1 MB.

Recueil des historiens des croisades, documents arméniens tome premier (Paris, 1869), French translations of Armenian histories and chronicles relating to the Crusades, preceded by an extensive study of the kingdom of Cilician Armenia. Matthieu d'Édesse, Grégoire le Prêtre, Basil, Nersés Schnorhali, Grégoire Dgh, Michel le Syrien (extrait), Guiragos de Kantzag (extrait), Vartan le Grand (extrait), Samuel d'Ani (extrait), Héthoum, Vahram d'Édesse, Héthoum II, Nersés de Lampron, le Connétable Sempad, Mardiros de Crimée, Mèkhitar de Daschir. 992 pdf pages. File size: 89MB.

Recueil des historiens des croisades, documents arméniens tome second (Paris, 1906), French and Latin documents relating to Cilician Armenia. Jean Dardel, Hayton (La Flor...), Haytonus, Brocardus, Guillelmus Adae, Daniel de Thaurisio, Les Gestes des Chiprois. 1310 pdf pages. File size: 114.5 MB.

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