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Maryland and London: University Press of America,. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0819189537 . Fine Clean glossy black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's Near Fine dust-jacket. This is in an older protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG+. (xiii) + (3) + 375 pp. Boards clean, tight, sharp cornered and firm. NO inscriptions, marks or annotations, but the former owner's bookplate is on the front pastedown = Patrick Thomas, Author of books on Armenia and others. Pages and page edges very clean and white. This is a translation of the Chronicle of 12th-century Armenian historian, Matthew of Edessa. The Chronicle, which covers the period from 925 AD to 1162 AD, deals with events in Armenia and Upper Mesopotamia. It also refers to events in the Byzantine Empire and those conquered by the Crusaders. Armenian princes, Arab potentates, and Turkish invaders march across the pages… Read More

Atlanta , Gerogia, USA: Scholars Press,. Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. Presumed 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. 1555406122 . Near As New Copy - In the original publisher's glossy card covered Paperback. Looks Unread. (x) + 304pp. Fold out Map of Armenia in the 5th Century at the rear of the book. Translation of: Patmut`iwn Hayots`. Ghazar Parpetsi was a 5th to 6th century Armenian chronicler and historian. Composed at the end of the fifth century C. E. Lazar's tripartite account charts a hundred-year span from the division of Armenia between Byzantium and Iran in 387 through the dissolution of the monarchy in 428 and Yazdgard II's devastating campaign of mid-century to re-impose Mazdeism as state cult, which led to the Armenian defeat at the Battle of Avarayr. It culminates in the successful revolt mounted by the author's patron Vahan Mamikonean which restored religious toleration by the treaty of Nuarsak in 484. Scarce title. If Seller's images not shown - Images… Read More