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 XXXil PREFACE.

Gregory Vikayaser the Little, and rose to the pontificat dignity of Armenia. Of this prelate we have many things to write in the course of our history. Besides several other excellent works, he composed a brief history of Armenia in verse from the period of Haic to his own days, which has been published in various times and places in con- junction with his other poems. He wrote a lamentation on the destruction of the city of Edessa by the infidels, and several useful epistles, from which many historical facts have been collected.

KikakusGazakevsis, one of the scholars of the monk Vanakan, flourished in the thirteenth century. He wrote a history of Armenia, commencing with the reign of Tiridates and extending to that of Leo, who was the first among the Reubenian race that ruled in Gilicia. He gives a detailed account of the invasions of the Scythians and the irruptions of the Tartars, extending to the year 1260.

VakdaV, one of the pupils of Vanakan, and fellow- scholar of Kirakus, flourished in the thirteenth century. He wrote a brief history from the creation of the world to the reign of Hethum the First, and to the death of the pontiff* Constantine, extending to the year 1272.

MALACrii the monk, flourished shortly after Kirakus and Vardan, in the days of king Leo, and the pontiflT Jacobus Clajensis. He wrote a history of the irruptions of the Tartars into the country of Armenia, and other events extending to the year 1272.

Vaiiram the monk flourished in the thirteenth century. He wrote in verse by desire of Leo the Third a history

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