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An Illuminated Armenian Manuscript “Guidebook” to the Sacred Shrines in the Holy Land from the End of the Seventeenth Century
Mikayel Arakelyan · 2017
Catalogue summary
A 1697 Armenian pilgrimage guide made in Jerusalem describes eighty Palestinian sites through text and eighty-one images and now survives in a Vienna Mekhitarist collection.
Why this matters
The manuscript joins miniature painting, sacred geography, pilgrimage practice, and interreligious monuments in a documented early-modern Armenian artifact.
Citation
Mikayel Arakelyan 2017. An Illuminated Armenian Manuscript “Guidebook” to the Sacred Shrines in the Holy Land from the End of the Seventeenth Century. Études arméniennes contemporaines. https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.1231
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