EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS IN GENEVA
On September 14, an exhibition of Armenian medieval manuscripts and books titled "Manuscripts of Armenia, the collection of Matenadaran" was staged in Geneva. The exhibition was realized under the patronage of the President of Switzerland Micheline Calmy-Rey and Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian and by the efforts of the Old Manuscripts Institute after Mashtots, the Martin Bodmer Museum-Library and the Armenian Embassy in Switzerland.
RA Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchian, Director of Matenadaran Hrach Tamrazian, Chairman of the Geneva Central Council Charles Ber, other officials of Switzerland and Geneva, representatives of international organizations and diplomats participated at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The exhibition presents Armenia as a crossroad of East and West and its investments in the world treasury of spiritual values. It brings to light the main effect of religion, philosophy, culture, art and science on the formation of the Armenian essence.
The exhibition will present the Gospel of Artsakh (XIV c.), the Gospel of Tatev School (XIV c.), and unique manuscripts of Grigor Tatevatsi, Grigor Narekatsi and Davit Anhaght. The miniature painting school of Cilicia is widely presented at the exhibition.
The exhibition will present also the Armenian manuscripts of the Library of Mechitarist Congregation in Venice and the National Library of France, also the History of Alexander (XIV c.), which is a unique sample of non-religious miniature painting.
The exhibition will continue until December 30. In the framework of it, an exhibition of photographs of a French artist Regi Laburtet will be put on devoted to the Armenian churches.
The sponsors of the exhibition are Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, "Poghosian and sons", "Armenia" and "Piliposian" foundations, Edi and Talin Avagians and Lombard Odye bank. The Julius Baer Bank also assists the exhibition. P.S. Bodmer Museum-Library was founded by a Swiss benevolent Martin Bodmer in the mid 20th century. It is one of the biggest personal libraries in the world with 160 thousand volumes of collection. The collection contains early and late medieval manuscripts, also series of texts of the New Testament, mainly the oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of John.
- Translated by L.H.
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