History of the Armenians

written by a deep-thinking scribe, whose lead we have followed especially, marking the important differences of other copies in the notes below, according to the reliability that has been witnessed by many. However, we confess that the copies we had at hand were not sufficient for an error-free printing; for in many places, they all agreed on the same obvious mistakes, perhaps because they were patterned from a single source.

Fifty years or more ago, this is how the scholars of the time viewed P'awstos P'awstos Buzand, the historian and his writings, as summarized fully in the preface of the first printing, which we have seen fit to leave unchanged. However, we deem it appropriate to add that with the flourishing of historical studies and research, the opinions of critics have changed. What was considered dream-narrative meaning: mythical or unreliable by Chamchian Mikael Chamchian, 18th-century historian and others, Patkanean Kerovbe Patkanean, 19th-century historian did not hesitate to call "incomparable among historians and many-fold truthful" in his own printing published in the capital of the Russians (1883), complaining that "it does not receive the recognition it deserves among the philologists of our nation." With such changes in time, opinions have also changed, which we see has happened with some of our other historians as well.

Again, regarding the dialect in which these books were stamped and composed, the opinions of philologists have always been divided.