Matenadaran

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Manuscript collection of Mashtot's Matenadaran
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Institute building
State (s): ArmeniaArmenia Armenia
Duration: approx.17,000 manuscripts
Period: from 5th century
Storage: Mesrop Mashtots Institute for Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan
Register link: Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection
Admission: 1997 ( session 3 )

The Mesrop Mashtots Institute for Old Manuscripts ( Armenian Մեսրոպ Մաշտոցի անվան հին ձեռագրերի ինստիտուտ Mesrop Mashtots'i anvan hin dzeragreri institut ), Matenadaran for short ( Մատենադարան ? / I ; Old Armenian for “library”, “storage place of manuscripts”) is the central archive for old Armenian manuscripts in Yerevan , Armenia . Since 1962 it has been named after Saint Mesrop Mashtots , the developer of the Armenian alphabet . In 1997 the collection of manuscripts was declared a World Document Heritage by UNESCO . Audio file / audio sample

The majority of the holdings of 17,000 manuscripts go back to the Matenadaran of the Catholic of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Echmiadzin . Expropriated in 1920 and transferred to Moscow, the collection ended up in Yerevan in 1939. The current building in neo-Armenian style was built between 1945 and 1957 by Mark Grigoryan , the then house architect of Yerevan. The magazine was carved into the rock to be safe from nuclear bombs and is now suffering from water ingress.

The collection contains outstanding examples of Armenian miniatures . The Etchmiadzin Gospels of 989 in an ivory binding from the 6th century has almost the status of a national relic.

gallery

  • Mesrop Mashtots and the Armenian alphabet

  • entrance

  • Binding of the Etchmiadzin Gospel , 6th century

  • Mughni Gospels around 1060

  • A manuscript of the collection

  • Indian Vice President Ansari visits the collection (2017)

  • Stair hall

  • Copper door of the entrance

literature

  • Emma Korchmasjan, Irina Drampjan, Graward Akopjan: Armenian illumination of the 13th and 14th centuries from the Matenadaran collection, Yerevan. Aurora-Kunstverlag, Leningrad 1984.
  • Tamara Mazaewa, Hratschja Tamrasjan (ed.): Armenian miniature. Collection of the Materadaran. Yerevan 2011, ISBN 978-5-550-01657-2 .

Web links

Commons : Matenadaran  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mashtots Matenadaran ancient manuscripts collection. UNESCO - Memory of the World, 1977, accessed July 13, 2014 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′ 31.8 ″  N , 44 ° 31 ′ 16.1 ″  E