19 Vark' Mesrovbay [The Life of Mesrovb], S.Y. Banean, ed. (Boston, 1951), Ch. 1, p. 1 (hereafter Koriwn).

20 Ghazar P'arpec'i's History of Armenia and Letter to Vahan Mamikonean (Ghazar P`arpec'u Hayoc' Patmut'iwn ew Tught' arh Vahan Mamikonean), M. Ter-Petroseanc', trans. (Alexandropol, 1895), II:57, pp. 212-14.

21 Koriwn, Ch. 14, p. 21.

22 Ibid., Ch. 28, p. 43.

23 Ibid., Ch. 24, pp. 36-37.

24 Ibid.

25 M. Abeghyan, Hayoc' Hin Grakanut'yan Patmut'iwn (History of Ancient Armenian Literature), Vol. I (Erevan, 1968), "Koriwn Vardapet" pp. 170-179. An abridged English translation appears as the introduction to the Life of Mashtotz (New York, 1964), B. Norehad trans. and ed., pp. 9-20.

26 Koriwn, Ch. 26, p. 40.

27 Abeghyan, op.cit., p. 171.

28 Koriwn, Ch. 12, p. 19.

29 Ibid., ch. 19, p. 30.

30 Ibid., ch. 12, p. 20.

31 Ibid., Ch. 26, p. 39.

32 On the hazarapet see J. Markwart, "Hazarapet", Handes Amsoreay,(1898):316-21.

33 Koriwn, Ch. 16, p. 24.

34 Ibid., p. 26. Koriwn is careful to distinguish Byzantine from Arsacid or Eastern Armenia. In chapter 16 he speaks of "the districts [wherein resided] half the Armenian people, under the authority of the emperor (i gawars kes azgin Hayoc' yishxanut'eann kayser]". Unquestionably Anatolis is the sparapet of Byzantine Armenia only.

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