On September 5, the opening ceremony of the exposition dedicated to the activities of the Lazarian noble dynasty took place in Matenadaran. During the ceremony the Acting Director of Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, senior researcher of Matenadaran Bakhtiar Hovakimyan, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Armenia Ivan made speeches. Vahan Ter-Ghevondian mentioned
On June 15-17, 2017 at the Sorbonne University in Paris an international conference “The Physiologus Between East and West: Distribution and Transmission of an Early Christian Text on Nature” took place. This early Christian writing in Greek, probably composed in the late 2nd century in Alexandria, describes the nature and behavior of various real and
On the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the foundation of the Armenian diocese in Lvov an exhibition “Polish Armenians: Manuscript Writing Traditions” was opened in Matenadaran on May 31, 2017, at 17:00. In 1367 by the edict of King Casimir III the Great of Polish-Lithuanian union, Armenian Gregory bishop got the right to establish a
“The Faces of Memory” the Fifth International Seminar was devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which this year had headline “Revived Cultural Heritage, Survived Manuscripts”. During the frames of seminars on October 27-29, 2015, at the “Matenadaran” Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts of Yerevan were specialists of leading centers of conservation sphere
The International Conference “Aristotle in Armenia” took place at the University of Geneva on May 12-13, 2017 (organized by Valentina Calzolari, Katerana Ierodiakonou and Irene Tinti). See the program. Scholars from Matenadaran Manea-Erna Shirinyan, Gohar Muradyan, Aram Topchyan and Armine Melkonyan, as well as specialists of the history of ancient philosophy from Switzerland, Greece, Italy,
Awarding ceremony to donor Manuela Salvini de Ghirach Mirman and exhibition of a valuable collection related to history of the noble Mirmanyan family was held on 29 April, 2017 at Mashtots Matenadaran. During the ceremony, speeches were delivered by the Head of the Department of International Relations of the Matenadaran Vardi Keshishian, the senior fellow
The Serbian publishing house PESIC I SINOVI has recently published a translation of Movsēs Khorenats‘i’s “History of Armenia,” which has aroused great interest among Serbian readers.On June 12, Vesna Pesic, the director of the publishing house, linguist and publicist, visited Matenadaran and talked to the director Vahan Ter-Ghevondian. Vesna Pesic donated a copy of Khorenats‘i’s
10 guides will travel to Germany for an international training as a result of the cooperation of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the Matenadaran.On October 8, the Feast of the Holy Translators, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative has decided to grant US $20,000 to the Yerevan Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, the Matenadaran, to facilitate
On May 21, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Senegal to Armenia N.G. Mr. Abdou Salam Diallo and the Honorary Consul of Senegal in Yerevan Artashes Avoyan visited Mashtots Matenadaran. Accompanied by Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the Director of Matenadaran, the guests toured the museum building and got acquainted with Medieval Armenian Literature, including
On January 9, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the first President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossian, PhD and DSc in Philology, was marked. On this occasion, Matenadaran initiated the publication of a Festschrift, to which a number of leading experts in Armenian and Near Eastern studies responded with love and warmth. Due to
