Armenian Manuscripts.—Manuscripts at Etchmiazin.—Comparative Value of Manuscripts.—Uncial Writing.—Monastic Libraries.—Collections in Europe.—The St. Lazaro Library 213

[CHAPTER XVIII.]

General History of Armenia.—Former Sovereigns.—Tiridates I. receives his Crown from Nero.—Conquest of the Country by the Persians and by the Arabs.—List of modern Kings.—Misfortunes of Leo V.: his Death at Paris 218

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ARMENIA.

CHAPTER I.