''Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘'' ("Epic Histories") was a history of 4th-century

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, presumably composed in the 470s. The author of the work is uncertain. Until recently it had been assumed that it was written by a certain Faustus, however his existence is now disputed. The

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and Armenologist

Nina Garsoïan Nina G. Garsoïan (April 11, 1923 – August 14, 2022) was a French-born American historian specializing in Armenian and Byzantine history. In 1969 she became the first female historian to get tenure at Columbia University and, subsequently, b ...

argues that the author was an anonymous cleric who was sympathetic to the nobility and had some competence in preaching. The book starts with the death of St. Gregory the Illuminator in 331 and concludes with the partition of Armenia between Iran and

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in 387. Along with the '' Patmut'yun Hayots'' ("History of Armenia") of

Movses Khorenatsi Movses Khorenatsi (ca. 410–490s AD; hy, Մովսէս Խորենացի, , also written as ''Movses Xorenac‘i'' and Moses of Khoren, Moses of Chorene, and Moses Chorenensis in Latin sources) was a prominent Armenian historian from the late an ...

(died 490s), the ''Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘'' has been referred to as two of the best Armenian sources in

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and

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-related studies. It has been noted by both Garsoïan and James R. Russell for its numerous reflections of

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, particularly Parthian, traditions.

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