Armenian Historical Sources

of the 5-15th Centuries

Selected Works

These translations are in the public domain. They may be copied and distributed freely.

5th Century

P'awstos Buzandac'i's History of the Armenians

Download in zip format pb.zip; pdf format Pawstos_Buzand.pdf

Ghazar P'arbec'i's History of the Armenians

Download in zip format gp.zip; pdf format Ghazar.pdf

The Passion of Saint Shushanik

The Martyrdom of Saint Vardan Mamikonean's Daughter
A New Translation of the Principal and Lesser Texts
by Rev. Fr. Krikor Vardapet Maksoudian
Download in zip format smam.zip

Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronicle or Chronicon

Download in zip format euseb.zip; pdf format Eusebius_Chronicle.pdf

7th Century

Anonymous The Primary History of Armenia or History of the Ancestors

Download in zip format pha.zip

Sebeos' History

Download in zip format seb.zip; pdf format Sebeos.pdf

7-8th Century

History of the Aghuans, attributed to Movse's Dasxurants'i

Download in zip format mdas.zip; pdf format Movses_Dasxurantsi.pdf

8th Century

Ghewond's History

Download in zip format ghew.zip; pdf format Ghewond.pdf

10th Century

Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i's [John Kat'oghikos'] History of Armenia

Translation and Commentary by Rev. Fr. Krikor Vardapet Maksoudian
Download in zip format yd.zip

John Mamikonean's History of Taron

Download in zip format jm.zip

11th Century

Aristakes Lastivertc'i's History

Download in zip format al.zip; pdf format Aristakes.pdf

12th Century

Dawit' Gandzakets'i's Penitential

Translation and Commentary by C. J. F. Dowsett
Download in pdf format pendg.pdf

12-13th Century

The Georgian Chronicle

Download in zip format gc.zip

Mkhitar Gosh's Fables (belles lettres), and Index to the Fables

Download in zip format gosh.zip

Mkhitar Gosh's Colophon or The Aghuanian Chronicle

Download in zip format mgc.zip

13th Century

Kirakos Gandzakets'i's History of the Armenians

Download in zip format kg.zip; pdf format Kirakos_Gandzaketsi.pdf

Vardan Arewelts'i's Compilation of History

[Extracts on the Saljuqs, Shaddadids, Zakarids, and Mongols]
Download in zip format va.zip

Step'annos Orbelean's History of the State of Sisakan

Download in zip format so.zip

Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle

Download in zip format css.zip; pdf format Chronicle_Smbat_Sparapet.pdf

Chronicle Attributed to King Het'um II, 1296

Download in zip format chet.zip

Grigor Aknerts'i's History of the Nation of Archers [Mongols]

Download in zip format ga.zip; pdf format Aknertsi.pdf

14th Century

Het'um the Historian's History of the Tartars [The Flower of Histories of the East]

Download in zip format hetum.zip; pdf format Hetum.pdf

15th Century

T'ovma Metsobets'i's History of Tamerlane and His Successors

Download in zip format tm.zip

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