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Absalom, Absalom!
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebJuly 17, 2018 His tombstone with its strangely twisted Armenian letters (as if by some miracle a few of them have sprouted extra limbs like the Indian goddess Lakshmi) lies […]
“As an Owl amidst the ruins”: A Note on Agha Jacob Hovanjan Guerak-Mirman of Surat
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebSeptember 15, 2018 Yesterday evening, I came across a letter while digitally “sifting” through reproduction of documents I acquired last summer from the Catholicosate archives at the Matenadaran in Yerevan. […]
His Heart was in Julfa: Petrus Uscan and his Will
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebMay 11, 2015 Will of Coja Petrus Uscan (Խօջա Պետրոս որտի Ոսկանի) who hailed from the formidable Veligianian family of New Julfa whose members were dispersed to the four corners […]
A Lock of Hair
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebMay 10, 2015 Letter No. 1534 in the Santa Catharina collection is unique among the other letters because it has a lock of a woman’s hair, tied to a fine […]
An Armenian Tombstone in the South China Seas
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebFebruary 11, 2017 According to papers stored at the Pondicherry archives, Coja David Sultan (or rather Sultan David Խոջա Սուլթանում դի Դավութխան) Shahamir Sultanum’s father is listed as having passed […]
A Passage from India in 1701: Some Notes on an Unknown Fragment of a travel diary found in Harleian Or. MS. 5458/5459
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebNovember 8, 2015 The first segment of Harleian Manuscript, Oriental 5459, “Apocryphal History, Armenian” has about thirty or forty folios of a work that is a continuation of a Persian […]
Coffee on my Mind
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebMay 20, 2014 A couple of nights ago, a chance (re)encounter with Kristof Glaman’s classic study of the Dutch East India Company, Dutch-Asiatic Trade (1981), led me to this wonderful […]
Agha Piri Calendar, a ship-owning Coffee merchant in Surat
/in Chair's Blog/by historywebMay 1, 2015 I had to scratch my head several times while reading this document and have finally managed to crack it, albeit provisionally. It is a commercial document drawn […]
The Oldest Armenian Will from London
/in Chair's Blog/by historyweb[coming soon]
