Saturday, April 22, 2017

Armenia Day 3: Manuscript Museum

Because Armenia is the first country to be totally Christian and has a crucial hand in the record keeping of the medieval period, it has a huge, stunning collection of manuscripts.  

The seated man is the "father" of Armenia- he invented their alphabet and codified early law.  


























































































































Tiny Quran













Blue is thought to protect the holy words.














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