History of Vardan and the Armenian War

...had it reached our hands in such a state, it might have contributed to the clarification of this problem. Unfortunately, however, the Entsayakan dedicatory preface of that manuscript, which is highly important from this perspective—where Yeghishe provides the order of the chapters and their titles—has been patched and rewritten by the historiographer deacon Zakaria in 1687. This was likely done according to an ancient copy written in 1174 (the A manuscript). Thus, by considering manuscript B and Ch¹, only one thing becomes perfectly clear to us: in the past, there was a group of manuscripts that, instead of eight, contained only seven yeghanak chapters/sections in the order provided by manuscript B.

Considering this circumstance, and also the fact that only Yeghishe’s titles are mixed up, while nothing is missing from the actual text—a fact accepted by philologists—we deemed it appropriate, without disturbing the Entsayakan dedicatory preface, to present Yeghishe's chapters by following manuscript B, joining the fifth and sixth chapters, as is the case in all manuscripts, and summarizing the entire material into seven chapters.