136 Authors of Armenian Grammars. [No. 2, 



teentli century. I shall now proceed to give a concise account of those 

 who followed them in the subsequent centuries. 



Among Europeans, Franciscus Rivola of Milan, composed an 

 Armenian and Latin grammar, which was printed in 1624. Being 

 himself a foreigner, he seems to have taken a great deal of pains in 

 preparing his book, which is not, however, without errors. 



Another grammar was compiled in Armenian and Latin by Clement 

 Galanus, which was printed in Rome in 1645. It is more compre- 

 hensive, and less abounds with inaccuracies than that of Rivola. A 

 treatise on Logic is also appended to this work. 



Doctor Voscan ^ufal i\u, C r i .u 1Ui y a , published an abridgment of Arme- 

 nian grammar in Amsterdam in 1666. 



An epitome of Armenian grammar, under the name of S'imon, 

 native of Julpha, was printed in Constantinople in 1725. Johannes 

 Jacob the Priest, surnamed i^^i^ Declension, wrote an Armenian 

 grammar in Latin, for the use of European students, which was 

 published in Rome in 1675. Cachatur Vertabecl of Erzerum, published 

 an Armenian grammar in Aligornia in 1696. 



Johannes Vertabed of Julpha, compiled a short grammar,] accom- 

 panied by a treatise on Logic, which was printed in Amsterdam in 1711. 



Johannes Joachim Schroder, a native of Holland, studied the 

 Armenian lauguage with unceasing application, and the greatest 

 avidity by bishop Thomas of Gokhten and his nephew Lucas. He 

 published an Armenian grammar with Latin exposition at Amsterdam 

 in 1711, under the title of \^ V u,Jhu& i^,<_/> t^W " Thesaurus 

 Linguae Armenecae Antiquae et Hodiernae," with a copious voca- 

 bulary and entertaining Dialogues in modern Armenian. Being an 

 excellent oriental scholar, he was competent to criticise the gram- 

 matical works of his predecessors, and to note their inaccuracies and 

 defects. 



Jacobus Villotte, from the Society of Jesus, published in 1714 at 

 Rome, a Latin and Armenian Dictionary with an elementary grammar. 

 He was, for several years, a Jesuit Missionary among the Armenians. 

 The great bulk of his book is a proof of the vast amount of labour he 

 has bestowed on its preparation and completion. 



Subsequently a more enlarged and improved grammar was published 

 by Mechithar, the founder of the Mechitlnuistic Society in Venice iu 

 the year 1730. 



