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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.

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Published in
Études arméniennes contemporaines
Year
2017
Language
English
DOI
10.4000/eac.1231

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

Topics

Archaeology, art, and material cultureReligion and church historyArmenian history

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