Description

[16] + 239 + [3] pp., 19x13cm., text in Armenian, amateur hardcover binding with traces of use, few old stamps (on French title page, and on first page of preface and text), text is clean and bright, cfr. OCLC 1265049692, [This is the very rare first publication of the "History of Bishop Sebeos on Heraclius", based on a 1672 manuscript and a 1568 manuscript which has since been lost. It is a key work for the historiography of Armenia, and most important source for its history of the 6th and 7th centuries. This account not only deals with Armenia, but focuses on a broader geographical scope including Byzantium, Iran and the early Muslim world. According to the English historian J. Howard-Johnston "the history is the single most important source on the ending of classical antiquity" (stated in his commentary for the critical 1999-edition of Sebeos)], X119781