NAASR's Mardigian Library Treasures — Mardigian Library

This edition of Library Treasures will focus on a single item acquired in 2019: Inchpēs zardarel tōnatsaṙě = Ինչպէս զարդարել տօնածառը (How to decorate the Christmas tree), a 20-page booklet written by “Zaruhi” and published in Tiflis in 1910.

This is the story of the 300-year journey of a remarkable book to our library. 

This issue will cover the life and illustrative work of Nonny Hogrogian.

In this edition of Library Treasures, we will highlight publications from the Mardigian Library collection that focus on murals of the Armenian churches. 

In conjunction with the celebratory event NAASR held on May 6, 2023, marking the appointment of Christina Maranci as the third holder of the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University, we are devoting this Library Treasures installment to materials from NAASR’s own organizational archives pertaining to this organization’s pioneering effort to establish the first chair in Armenian Studies in the U.S.—or, indeed, anywhere in the Armenian diaspora in North America—focusing on the years from 1954 to the appointment of the first chairholder in 1969.