Movses Kaghankatvatsi

Authorship

In the works of earlier Armenian authors no name is attached to The History and early in the 13th century, however, Mkhitar Gosh names a Movses Dasxurants'i as the author. The earliest extant manuscript of The History, also of the 13th century (1289), bears no author's name; nor do other manuscripts. The earliest manuscript to bear the name of Movses Kalankatuaci is that copied by the scribe Lunkianos in 1761. The date of the compilation known as The History is based on the fact that the last person to have a hand in The History wrote at the earliest at the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century.

The first historian to mention Movses' work was the medieval Armenian legal scholar Mkhitar Gosh, referring to him as "Movses Daskhurantsi."{{cite book | url-access = registration

Movses narrates the Khazar invasion of Transcaucasia and other events up to the seventh century in Book I and II of his History. Book III of his History differs from the previous ones in style of writing{{cite book Because of such time lapse and difference in style, attribution of the work to a single author seems doubtful. For this reason it has been common to assume two consecutive authors or editors, Kaghankatvatsi (seventh century) as the author of Books I and II, and Daskhurantsi (tenth century) as the editors of Kaghankatvatsi's text and the author of Book III.

Publications and translations

Grabar (Old Armenian)

• Published by N. Emin.
• (Vol. 1, vol. 2.)
• A reprint of the 1860 Moscow edition.

Modern Armenian

Russian translations

Georgian translation

English translations

References

References

1. {{in lang. de Gesellschaft, Görres. ''[[Oriens Christianus]]''. Leipzig, Germany: O. Harrassowitz 1905, p. 274
2. Bosworth, C. E.. (1986). "Arrān".
3. Howard-Johnston. (2006). "East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity". Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
4. Movsēs (Daskhurantsʻi). (1961). "The History of the Caucasian Albanians". Oxford University Press.