A delegation of researchers from Matenadaran actively participated in the workshop, presenting papers on the Holy Scripture and related texts within the Armenian manuscript tradition.
Anna Ohanjanyan, Head of the Department of Armenian Literature of the 15th–19th Centuries, and Garnik Harutyunyan, Senior Researcher at the Department for the Study of Armenian Texts of the 5th–14th Centuries, together delivered a paper titled “Modes of Mobility in the Seventeenth Century: Two Initiatives of Armenian Manuscript Bible Production.”
Anush Sargsyan, Researcher at the Department of Study of Scriptoria, presented a paper titled “Visualising History: A Case Study of Armenian Bibles Donated to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the 1620s–1630s.”
Among the presentations, Narine Vardanyan, Senior Researcher at the Department of Manuscript Studies and the Study of Armenian Texts of the 5th–14th Centuries, delivered a paper entitled “The “Book of Readingsˮ (Girk‘ ěnt‘erts‘օwatsots‘) in Armenian Literary Source.”
A. Ohanjanyan, G. Harutyunyan, and A. Sargsyan participated as part of the Matenadaran project “Text, Paratext, Image: The Circulation and Transmission of Books and Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire and Beyond” (24WS-6F010).
B. The participation of N. Vardanyan in the workshop was supported by the Individual Grant Program of the H. Hovnanian Family Foundation.
