Researchers from the Matenadaran—Arsen Harutyunyan, Seda Manukyan, Ani Zh. Avetisyan,
Knar Harutyunyan, Tatevik Manukyan, Seyedehnasim Fatemi, Davit Ghazaryan, Gayane
Tshagharyan, Ovsanna Khachatryan, and Tamara Poghosyan—participated in the Summer
Symposium on Oriental Christian and Armenian Studies, organized by the Mesrop Center for
Armenian Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) on June 1–3.
Seyedehnasim Fatemi, Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Oriental Studies (PhD in
History), and Davit Ghazaryan, Head of the Manuscript Depository (PhD in Art History),
presented a paper entitled “Visualizing the Rose and Nightingale: The Transfixion of Persian
Motifs into Armenian Manuscript Art.” Their participation was supported by the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation through the Short-Term Grant for Armenian Studies 2026.
Tatevik Manukyan, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Codicology (PhD in Philology),
presented the paper “Lost and Scattered Armenian Manuscripts in the Armenian Press.” Her
participation was supported by the Matenadaran and the Higher Education and Science Committee
of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia.
Ovsanna Khachatryan, Research Fellow in the Department of Codicology, delivered a paper
entitled “The Function of Model and Subsequent Colophons, Marginal Notes, and Scribal
Experimentation in Armenian Manuscripts.”
Khnar Harutyunyan, also of the Department of Codicology, presented the jointly authored paper
“Beyond the Catalogue: Rethinking the Presentation of Armenian Manuscripts in the Digital Age,”
co-written with Tatevik Manukyan and Ara Gasparyan. Financial support was provided by the
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Dean Shahinian Fund.
Arsen Harutyunyan, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Epigraphy at the
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and
Senior Research Fellow at the Matenadaran, presented the paper “The Phenomenon of Bilingual
Inscriptions within the Framework of Armenian Epigraphic Heritage.” His participation was
sponsored by Erasmus+.
Seda Manukyan, Research Fellow in the Department of Codicology, presented the paper “Early
Armenian Miniature Art: Newly Discovered Canon Table Fragments.” Financial support was
provided by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Dean
Shahinian Fund, and the H. Hovnanian Family Foundation Armenia.
Tamara Poghosyan, Research Fellow in the Department of Manuscript Studies, delivered the paper
“Linguistic Analysis of the Modern Armenian (Ashkharabar) Books Printed in Venice in the First
Half of the Eighteenth Century.” Her participation was supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation.
Ani Zh. Avetisyan, Research Fellow in the Department of Oriental Studies, presented the paper
“Armenian-Script Manuscript Copies of the Verse Dictionaries ‘Tuḥfe-i Şāhidī’ and ‘Luġat-i
Ferişteoġlū’ as Samples of the Interrelationship Between Armenian and Turkish Lexicography.”
Her participation was made possible through grants provided by the conference organizers and the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Gayane Tshagharyan, Research Fellow in the Research Group for Medical and Scientific
Manuscripts, presented the paper “Multilingualism in the Medical Terminology of a FourteenthCentury Armenian Manuscript.” Her participation was supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation.
The participants express their sincere gratitude to the Mesrop Center for Armenian Studies at
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, particularly to Dr. Cornelia Horn and Dr. Ani
Shahnazaryan, for their excellent organization and hospitality.
