Four years ago, united of the world's leading scholars of Armenian art, Professor Thomas Mathews of strange York University's Institute of Fine Arts, approached The Pierpont Morgan Library in strange York City with the idea of an exhibition of Armenian illuminated manuscripts from American collections.
While the largest collection of manuscripts is in the Matenadaran, the State Library of Manuscripts, in Yerevan, with additional sizable collections in Jerusalem and Venice, Professor Mathews had painstakingly located and researched the Armenian manuscripts
