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APPENDIX. 



Notes by Mr. Johannes Avdall, on the extracts proposed from the 

 work of Moses Khorenensis.. 



Moses Khorenensis ({f »£»£« ]v"i>^""jt) an Armenian historian, rheto- 

 rician and bibliographer of great repute, nourished in Armenia in the 

 middle of the fifth century. He was well versed in Syrian and Persian 

 languages. He went to Athens and zealously applied himself to the 

 study of the works of Grecian writers and philosophers. His name is 

 well known to the philologers and antiquarians of Europe, by the publi- 

 cation of the text and a Latin translation of his history and geography, 

 by the two brothers, William and George Whiston in 1736. The 

 learned linquist and orientalist, P. E. Le Vaillant De Florival, professor 

 of the Armenian language at the Royal Academy of Paris, has lately 

 presented the literary world with a French translation of the history of 

 Moses of Khorene, which was published at Venice in 1841, together 

 with the text. Although the geography appended to, and published 

 with the history of Moses Khorenensis by the two Whistons is attri- 

 buted by some writers to another author, yet the genuiueness of its anti- 

 quity cannot in my opinion be at all questioned. 



I have added the original Armenian to Major Anderson's list. As 

 much of his attempts go to prove the great confusion arising from 

 the mistakes of proper names, I also subjoin the same list from a very 

 correct edition of Moses Khorenensis, as printed at Venice in 1843. 

 Many of the names are different, and several places omitted. 



From the preface to this recent edition it appears that the veteran 

 Mechitharistic Society of Venice have experienced no small difficulty in 

 procuring correct manuscript copies of the geography of this ancient 

 Armenian author. Of this they possessed only five in their extensive 

 library. All of them were, however, without the least mention of the 

 dates and places in which they were respectively transcribed, and four 

 were altogether incomplete. After incessant inquiries they at last suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining a beautifully written and most correct and complete 

 manuscript copy of the work from the library of the convent of Etch- 

 miatchin m Armenia, (Op^wu,!, \}pp»ji> ht^-tyf) an d thus they were en- 

 abled to publish in 1 843 a revised and improved edition of the complete 

 works of Moses Khorenensis. A full Catalogue of this library, of 



