PREFACE

In this volume, we contain all the metrical works of Shnorhali, apart from his most select poems, the Lament of Edessa and the Hymns original: "Շարականացն" (Sharakanatsn), the collection of Armenian liturgical chants..

However, readers should know that these were not brought to press through a hasty selection based on recent manuscripts, whose additions are often based on poor rhythm and lame feet of meter—excused only by the unskilled—but were instead compared with great care against ten...