Note 6 — Chapter VIII · FROM MUSH TO ERZERUM
Reading edition
See the account of Zenobius of Glak as given in the pages of Ritter (Erdkunde, vol. x. pp. 553 seq. and 703), and of Langlois (Collection des historiens de l’Arménie, Paris, 1867, vol. i. pp. 344 seq.). Zenobius is reputed to have been the first bishop of this monastery.
I must add that the work purporting to have been written by Zenobius and called History of Taron, from which Ritter quotes and which is translated in Langlois—and which the monks of Surb Karapet prize so highly—is regarded by modern scholars as a collection of legends made in the eighth or ninth centuries, and valueless as a historical document (see Gelzer, Die Anfänge der armenischen Kirche, in Verhandlungen der könig. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wiss. zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 1895, p. 123). A much more trustworthy account of the doings of St. Gregory in this neighbourhood is that given in the Agathangelus treatise. I have summarised it in Vol. I. Ch. XVI. pp. 295, 296. ↑