Leading authors:-- Krikor Sguevratzi, Kevork Sguevratzi, Mukhitar
Anetzi, Vanagan Vartabed, Vartan Vartabed, etc. They wrote histories,
commentaries, etc. As the Armenian dynasties ended in the fourteenth
century, I will reserve my notes on the later literature till towards
the end of the book.
The peculiar value of the Armenian literature is not realized as it
should be, by European and American scholars; the language is well
worth learning for what it can give the student. Not alone is the
original work that comes from the first Christian nation specially
valuable for its bearing on primitive Christianity, but the Armenian
scholars translated great numbers of works from other languages,
and these translations are preserved in Armenian monasteries when
the originals have been irretrievably lost in the wars, and burnings,
and devastations of other countries. Six hundred volumes of this old
literature are known to exist now, two hundred in Europe, and four
hundred in different places in Armenia.