Back to the Roots: Notions from the Letter of Love and Concord and 13th-century Armeno-Syriac Interactions in Cilician Armenia

This article analyses, publishes and provides an English translation of a short text about the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and the Armenian King Trdat the Great, found in manuscript no. 947 of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Matenadaran (Erevan, Armenia). I first provide a study of the manuscript, including a diplomatic and palaeographical analysis, as well as its adventurous life and travels before reaching the Matenadaran. Then, I analyse the text and its claim to have registered Ephraem the Syrian’s answer to the question of his disciple Sahak, later translated from Syriac into Armenian. Subsequently, the article includes the Armenian original and English translation of the text.