Armenian Historical Sources

of the 5-15th Centuries

Selected Works*

These translations are in the public domain. They may be copied and distributed freely.

5th Century

P'awstos Buzandac'i's History of the Armenians
download in zip format pb.zip
Ghazar P'arbec'i's History of the Armenians
download in zip format gp.zip

The Passion of Saint Shushanik
The Martyrdom of Saint Vardan Mamikonean's Daughter
    A New Translation of the Principal and Lesser Texts
    by Rev. Fr. Krikor Vardapet Maksoudian
    download in zip format smam.zip

Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronicle or Chronicon
download in zip format euseb.zip

7th Century

Anonymous The Primary History of Armenia or History of the Ancestors
download in zip format pha.zip
Sebeos' History
download in zip format seb.zip

7-8th Century

History of the Aghuans, attributed to Movse's Dasxurants'i
download in zip format mdas.zip

8th Century

Ghewond's History
download in zip format ghew.zip

10th Century

Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i's [John Kat'oghikos'] History of Armenia
Translation and Commentary by Rev. Fr. Krikor Vardapet Maksoudian
download in zip format yd.zip

John Mamikonean's History of Taron
download in zip format jm.zip

11th Century

Aristakes Lastivertc'i's History
download in zip format al.zip

12th Century

Dawit' Gandzakets'i's Penitential
Translation and Commentary by C. J. F. Dowsett
download in pdf format pendg.pdf

12-13th Century

The Georgian Chronicle
    download in zip format gc.zip
Mkhitar Gosh's Fables (belles lettres), and Index to the Fables
    download in zip format gosh.zip
Mkhitar Gosh's Colophon or The Aghuanian Chronicle
    download in zip format mgc.zip

13th Century

Kirakos Gandzakets'i's History of the Armenians
    download in zip format kg.zip
Vardan Arewelts'i's Compilation of History
[Extracts on the Saljuqs, Shaddadids, Zakarids, and Mongols]
    download in zip format va.zip
Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle
    download in zip format css.zip
Chronicle Attributed to King Het'um II, 1296
    download in zip format chet.zip
Grigor Aknerts'i's History of the Nation of Archers [Mongols]
    download in zip format ga.zip

14th Century

Het'um the Historian's History of the Tartars [The Flower of Histories of the East]
download in zip format hetum.zip

15th Century

T'ovma Metsobets'i's History of Tamerlane and His Successors
download in zip format tm.zip

*Note: Because of their large size, each of these texts has been divided into multiple files (of about 30k each) for fast display. Use the CONTINUE link at the bottom of each page to advance.

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