Index of Armenian Manuscripts

L'index des manuscrits arméniens fait l'inventaire des manuscrits arméniens numérisés et disponibles en accès complet dans des bibliothèques numériques. Il compile les principales métadonnées disponibles dans les catalogues (dimensions, support, titre, nombre de pages, date de copie) et propose un accès direct au document. La plupart des manuscrits sont disponibles via IIIF, et sont donc consultables avec le visualiseur Mirador.
Ils peuvent également être directement annotés et transcrits avec la plateforme Calfa Vision. L'accès à certaines ressources peut nécessiter la création d'un compte sur la bibliothèque numérique.

The Index of Armenian Manuscripts lists Armenian manuscripts digitized and available in full access in digital libraries. It compiles the main metadata available in the catalogs (dimensions, support, title, number of pages, copy date) and offers direct access to the document. Most of the manuscripts are available via IIIF, and are therefore viewable with the Mirador viewer.
They can also be directly annotated and transcribed with the Calfa Vision platform. Access to certain resources may require the creation of an account on the digital library.

💡 If your are looking for Gospels, also seek évangile, աւետարան, etc.

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ID	Location	Country	Permalink	Digital Library	Support	Date	Pages	Size	Title	Genre
ALQ1	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1632-1632	564 pages	21.0 x 15.0 x 5.0 cm	Gospels	NaN
ALQ100	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1300-1500	422 pages	15.5 x 23.0 x 5.0 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ101	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1700-1800	416 pages	11.5 x 17.0 x 3.0 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ102	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1673-1673	238 pages	13.0 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ103	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1500-1700	274 pages	13.5 x 19.0 x 4.0 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ104	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1566-1566	204 pages	13.0 x 17.5 x 3.0 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ105	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1679-1679	473 pages	9.0 x 15.25 x 2.5 cm	Festal calendar	NaN
ALQ106	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1300-1400	540 pages	9.0 x 13.0 x 5.0 cm	Mashtotsʻ	NaN
ALQ107	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1500-1700	365 pages	9.0 x 13.5 x 4.5 cm	Festal calendar	NaN
ALQ108	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1681-1681	452 pages	9.5 x 14.5 x 3.0 cm	Festal calendar	NaN
ALQ109	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1600-1700	543 pages	9.0 x 13.5 x 4.0 cm	Festal calendar	NaN
ALQ110	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1500-1700	379 pages	7.5 x 12.0 x 4.5 cm	Book of hymns and canticles	NaN
ALQ111	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1465-1465	368 pages	10.0 x 14.0 x 3.5 cm	Zhamagirkʻ	NaN
ALQ112	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1643-1643	265 pages	10.0 x 15.5 x 3.0 cm	Zhamagirkʻ	NaN
ALQ113	Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo	Syria	See manuscript	HMML	Paper	1480-1480	474 pages	9.0 x 13.0 x 5.5 cm	Zhamagirkʻ	NaN

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Methodology

This index only compiles metadata provided by online and, if necessary, paper catalogs, in their original language. It does not include standardization or traduction of names yet (WIP). The index is mainly focused on historical manuscripts (prior to the 20th century), but may sometimes include some modern handwritten archives.

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Credits

Original list has been established by Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes and by Anush Sargsyan (Matenadaran) and Chahan Vidal-Gorène (Calfa) in 2018, and has been expanded by Calfa team (2018 -).

ID column follows guidelines designed by Bernard Coulie to identify Armenian manuscripts in the main worldwide collections.

Cite

You are free to cite this work and website in any publication or conference, in particular if you use these compiled metadata in any Digital Humanities project. You can also cite the relevant version of the dataset published on Zenodo.
Vidal-Gorène, Chahan, Sargsyan, Anush, & Van Elverdinghe, Emmanuel. (2024). Index of Digitized Armenian Manuscripts (v2.5.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13118731

Last update: v2.6 - 22/01/2025