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This anonymous Armenian hagiographical and historical text combines a city history of Amasia (modern Amasya) with a life of Saint Theodore the General. It survives in a…

Anania vardapet’s homily on the completion (martyrdom) of Peter at the Cross treats Peter’s death as the perfection of apostolic witness, framing martyrdom as a theologi…

This homily, attributed to Mambre Vercanoł (5th–6th c.), addresses the eschatological 'great day' of Christ's parousia, blending apocalyptic imagery with pastoral exhort…

The Homily on the Nativity attributed to Mambre Vercanoł is a fifth- to sixth-century Armenian liturgical sermon celebrating the Nativity of Christ on 6 January. It surv…

This homily on the resurrection of Lazarus, attributed to Mambre Vercanoł, is a classical Armenian (grabar) discourse that employs scriptural paraphrase and typological…

This homily on the resurrection of Lazarus, attributed to the obscure Armenian author Mambre Vercanoł (fl. 5th–6th c.), survives only in Classical Armenian (grabar) and…

This homily, attributed to the shadowy Mambre Vercanoł (fl. 5th–6th c.), narrates Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, linking it typologically to the raising of Lazarus. It s…

The Čaṙkʿ (Homilies) attributed to Yovhannēs Mandakuni is a collection of Armenian patristic sermons traditionally dated to the late 5th century. The homilies employ a r…

The Letter of Giwt to Vačʿē is a 5th-century Armenian epistle from Catholicos Giwt (c. 461–478) to Vačʿē, a marzpan (governor) of Armenia under Sasanian rule. Written du…

This letter, attributed to the Armenian patriarch Sahak Partʿew (Isaac the Great) and the scholar Mesrop Mashtotsʿ, is a response to a lost letter from Proclus, Patriarc…

Sahak Partʿew (Isaac the Great), patriarch of Armenia (387–439), wrote this letter to Akak, a bishop whose identity and see remain uncertain. The letter survives only in…

The Old Armenian Lectionary is an anonymous liturgical compilation that preserves a calendar of scriptural readings and psalms for the feasts and memorials of the early…

This anonymous hymn (šarak) from the Šaraknocʿ, the Armenian hymnal, follows the standard pattern of the genre with an incipit and structure typical of liturgical hymns.…

The Canons attributed to Gregory the Illuminator are a collection of thirty ecclesiastical laws traditionally ascribed to the fourth-century apostle of Armenia. They sur…

The Canons of Sahak (Kanonkʿ Sahakay) is a collection of canon law attributed to Sahak Partʿew (Isaac the Great, d. 439), Catholicos of Armenia. The work addresses eccle…

The Armenian Old Testament, transmitted in classical Armenian (grabar), is a translation of the Septuagint with some Syriac influences. Its origins are traditionally att…

Frik's poems, composed in classical Armenian with colloquial and Middle Armenian influences, reflect a transitional linguistic register. Flourishing in the late 13th to…

The Prayer of Gregory the Illuminator is a classical Armenian (grabar) prayer traditionally attributed to Gregory the Illuminator (d. ca. 328), the evangelist of Armenia…

Eznik of Kolb's Refutation of the Sects is a mid-5th-century Armenian theological treatise that systematically critiques Zoroastrianism, Greek philosophy, Marcionism, an…

Girkʿ tʿłtʿocʿ (Book of Letters) is an Armenian collection of doctrinal correspondence and conciliar acts, central to anti-Chalcedonian polemic. Its core material dates…

Koriwn's Varkʿ Maštocʿi is the earliest known Armenian hagiography, composed shortly after the death of Maštocʿ (ca. 440). It provides a primary account of the invention…

The work attributed to Movsēs Kalankatowacʿi is a medieval Armenian historical text that purports to narrate events from the 4th to the 7th centuries, focusing on the hi…

Mxitʿar Heracʿi's medical work, likely composed in the 13th century, survives in a single manuscript tradition with the earliest witness from the 14th century. The text…

Agatʿangelos's Patmowtʿiwn hayocʿ (History of the Armenians) is a foundational work of Armenian historiography that narrates the conversion of Armenia to Christianity un…

Movsēs Xorenacʿi’s *History of the Armenians* is a foundational work of Armenian historiography, traditionally attributed to the 5th century but now widely dated to the…