David Merdintsi ( Arm. Դավիթ Մերդինցի ) is an Armenian scribe and chronicler of the 15th century.
He was a priest from the city of Mardin . In 1452, he rewrote a previously compiled collection of materials of different (mostly historical) content. He added his chronicle to the manuscript, covering the period between 1450 and 1457 [1] . David was not only a contemporary of the events described, but, in most cases, an eyewitness. His short chronicle is an important and reliable source for the study of this short period [1] [2] . It contains interesting data about the state of Kara-Koyunlu and the reign of Jahanshah , about the war between the leader of the Ak-Koyunlu tribe Uzun-Hasan and his brother Jahangir, about the uprising in Mardin [1] [2] , the earthquake in Erzincan on April 23, 1457 [3 ] , etc.
- Manuscripts
- Matenadaran , manuscript No. 1198
- Editions
- Small chronicles (XIII — XVIII centuries) / comp. V.A. Hakobyan. - Er. : publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR, 1956. - T. 2. - P. 210-215. - 686 p.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Small chronicles (XIII — XVIII centuries) / comp. V.A. Hakobyan. - Er. : publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR, 1956. - T. 2. - P. 209. - 686 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Voskanyan V. Valuable primary sources of the history of the Armenian people // Historical and Philological Journal of the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR . - 1968. - No. 3 . - S. 296-300 .
- ↑ Nicholas Ambraseys. Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900 .-- Cambridge University Press, 2009 .-- 968 p. - ISBN 9781316347850 .