Սիմեոն Երևանցի, Ջամբռ
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Simeon Yerevantsi’s (Simeon of Yerevan; b. 1710, Catholicos 1763-1780) work “Jambr” is one of the important sources for the study of various issues of Armenian studies. During his patriarchate, he devoted a great deal of attention to the writing of the Catholicosate and to the work of compiling documents. During the reign of Simeon Yerevantsi, official correspondence was regularly registered, special attention was paid to the preservation of their copies, and the regulation of the Divan (Archive) of the Mother See began, and “Jambr” was written based on these documents.
Chapters present the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church the enthronement of the Armenian patriarchs, church dioceses, catholicosate (Aghvanic, Aghtamar, and Cilicia), decrees received from foreign rulers confirming the rights of the Mother See, estates, and monastic farms. “Jambr”’s economic information on types of land ownership, taxes, monastic land holdings, and other property and water ownership is unique.
“Jambr” is distinguished by the variety of sources used in Armenian bibliography. They are Armenian historical works and documents in Armenian, Georgian, Persian, and Ottoman languages, which were found both in the Divan of the Mother See and were found in other monasteries. A large number of kondaks, manifestos, deeds of purchase, and other documents were organized, grouped, annotated, and presented in “Jambr”. Earth is also unique in that there are documents whose contents have been preserved only through “Jambr”.
Two (MM 978, MM 4592) autograph manuscripts of “Jambr” are located in the Matenadaran, compared to which the critical text was prepared.
According to the tradition spread in the Armenian bibliography, the historical part of “Jambr” begins with the establishment of Christianity in
Armenia, and the economic part, which is based on proclamations and estates, summarizes exclusive information related to the economic relations of the 17th-18th centuries, which refer to monastic-ecclesiastical landholdings, monastic economies and revenues, and other property matters.
However, the economic core of “Jambr” is the monastic-ecclesiastical land ownership, which differed in its characteristics among the types of land
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