The History of the Caucasian Albanians by Movses Dasxuranci

The History of the Caucasian Albanians by Movses Dasxuranci (a.k.a. Moses Kałankatuaçi; tr. C.J.F. Dowsett,Oxford, 1961)

The present work is the only complete translation into a West European language of the History of the Caucasian Albanians compiled by Movses Dasxuranci. It is the first translated version of the work since it was rendered into Russian by K. P. Patkanean in 1861. The translation is based upon the editions of Shahnazarean and Emin in conjunction with manuscripts and lists of variants available outside Armenia representing the two principal groups into which the manuscripts have been divided. The History is the main source of information on the affairs of the Aluank' (the Albani of Classical writers) from the 4th to the `0th century and is of interest also to students of the Byzantine, Sassanian and Arab empires and of the Khazars. Many of the documents assembled by Movses concern the ancient Albanian branch of the Armenian Orthodox Church, Words otherwise unattested in Armenian have been indicated in the notes. The Armenian editions and the Russian translation have long been bibliographical rarities, and the present translation makes the contents of the History more readily available to scholars then hitherto.  

(“Albania” in this book does not mean the Albania of today, but instead the present-day Azerbaijan.) 

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