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The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)
Alex MacFarlane · 2022
Catalogue summary
Sixteen Armenian poems added to seventeenth-century manuscript M7709 are translated and interpreted alongside the City of Brass, Alexander's death, Darius's emissaries, and wider Alexander Romance traditions.
Why this matters
The microhistory reveals how one Matenadaran manuscript participated in literary circulation across Armenia, the Caucasus, and neighboring textual worlds.
Citation
Alex MacFarlane 2022. The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2). Iran and the Caucasus. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-20220403
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