Carriere, Auguste. [Menevishean, Gabriel, trans.]

Աբգարու զրոյցը Մովսէս Խորենացւոյ պատմութեան մէջ : քննադատական ուսումնասիրութիւնք / Abgaru zroyts’y Movses Khorenats’woy patmut’ean mej : k’nnadatakan usumnasirut’iwnk' [= King Agbar's correspondence in the history of Movses Khorenatsi]

Vienna: Mkhitaryan Press, 1897. 8vo, pp. 15, [1], 107, [5]; original gray printed wrappers; light edge toning, unopened and untrimmed, very good. No. 22 in the Azgayin matenadaran series. The first Armenian translation of Carriere's La legende d'Abgar dans l'Histoire d'Armenie de Moise de Khoren, 1896, which itself is an analysis of Movses Khorenatsi's work from the 5th century A.D. Carriere believed Movses to be a later figure, and dated his work to the 9th century. King Agbar is a celebrated saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church, where he is understood to have had correspondence with Jesus. Columbia, UCLA and Harvard in OCLC. Item #59308

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