Many types of ancient and mediaeval works were translated into
Classical Armenian (grabar) soon after the Armenian alphabet was
created. Modern scholars consider some surviving Armenian
versions to be more complete and accurate than the extant
originals. In this book, published in 1818 by the Mkhitarist
congregation of San Lazzaro in Venice, the Armenian and extant
Greek fragments of the Chronicle of the Greek church historian
Eusebius (ca. 263–339) are printed in parallel columns with a
Latin translation by the linguist Mkrtich‘ Vardapet Awgerian.
The Armenian version, which exists in one manuscript, preserves
additional fragments of classical authors who wrote before
Eusebius’s time.