A new study of the Armenian people as seen through their art from the late 5th to the early 20th century.

This publication is an entirely new study of the Armenian people from the late 5th to the early 20th century. Taking as its starting point the internationally important collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, the authors have selected over 20 of the rarest and most beautiful of these to tell the history of the Armenian people, their art and literature.