Toros Roslin
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Toros Roslin; c. 1210–1270 was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages. Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of wes
Statue of Toros Roslin in front of the Matenadaran in Yerevan
Ruins of the fortress of Hromkla where Roslin worked.
Fiery furnace (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego), Mashtots, 1266 (MS No. 2027, Fol. 14 V.)
The Portrait of Prince Levon, Yerevan, Matenadaran, No. 8321
Matenadaran
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The Matenadaran, officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is the largest center for the storage, study and popularization of Armenian manuscripts, combining the functions of a
Toros Roslin
…The Zeytun Gospels of 1256 (MS. 10450), copied for Catholicos Constantine I {See link}and the Malatia Gospel of 1268 (MS No. 10675) are located at the Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan. The manuscript (formerly MS No. 3627) was presented to Catholicos Vazgen I as a gift by Archbishop Yeghishe Derderian, patriarch of Jerusalem…
View of the Matenadaran
The manuscripts that later became the core of the Matenadaran collection were kept, before nationalization, at this building constructed in 1911 at the Etchmiadzin monastery.
The main/old building of the Matenadaran
The statues of Mesrop Mashtots and his disciple Koryun by Ghukas Chubaryan (1962).