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H A Y A P A T U M original: "ՀԱՅԱՊԱՏՈՒՄ", meaning "History of the Armenians" or "Armenian Records".

LIBRARY
OF GRIGOR AGACHANEAN
Classification No. 1332/2

HOVHANNES THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CALIPH

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SUCCEEDED to the holy throne was the great Imastaser Philosopher Hovhannes. He was learned and knowledgeable in all the poetic schemas, the parts of speech and their components, as well as the various kinds of habits and those things existing under substance, the classifications of species, down to the individual; he was not ignorant of the conditions and circumstances of periods, nor of those things separate and inseparable. Furthermore, regarding educational training

1. He explains the knowledge of the various parts of the philosophy of Hovhannes the Philosopher in a wise style.