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Sanjian (Avedis K.) papers
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Table of contents
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6, box 7, box 8, box 9, folder 1-36, box 10
Correspondence.
Box 1-4: Personal correspondence files are organized alphabetically by correspondent's last name. Materials include letters
from UCLA Librarian for Armenian and Greek, Gia Aivazian, Parisian literary critic and poet, Krikor Beledian, Director of
Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, Director of the Armenian Film Foundation, Dr. Michael
Hagopian, and Austrian Turcologist of the University of Vienna, Andreas Tietze.
Box 4-9: Scholarly and professional correspondence files are organized alphabetically by organization, project, publication,
event or subject. Materials include letters from Sanjian during his service as Editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies (JSAS), as a founding member and chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) and as a board member for the
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).
Box 8-9:The NAASR files include letters from Chairman Manoog S. Young and Helen Sanjian as well as minutes, rules, by-laws,
mailing lists, reports and constitution.
Box 10: Armenian Assembly correspondence from Sanjian's service on its Board of Directors. Materials also include its newsletters,
conference reports, congressional statements commemorating April 24 as Armenian Martyrs Day and Sanjian's paper, "The Armenian
Genocide: It's Causes and Effects."
box 11, folder 1-26, box 11, box 9, folder 37-51, box 12, folder 1-26
UCLA files.
Box 9: Research grant applications, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures faculty meeting minutes, annotated typescript
of Sanjian's "Armenian Genocide's Seventieth Anniversary Address," UCLA Armenian Studies press releases and informational
brochure.
Box 11: Faculty Advisory Committee for the Gustave E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and Faculty Advisory Committee
for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Reports, minutes and correspondence, copies of the Armenian Students
Association publication
Roots, correspondence concerning the inception of the UCLA Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, typescript of interview with Sanjian
concerning UCLA's Armenian Studies program, press releases, photos and programs regarding the exhibition, "A Millennium of
Armenian Culture," and Sanjian's lecture notes, outlines and reading lists for Armenian history courses.
Box 12: Handwritten and typed Armenian studies lectures and notes on topics such as language, alphabet, historians and historiography,
medieval tales, poetry and folk songs, the cultural renaissance, Shakespeare's sonnets, the millets, the Armenian Question
and monk and poet, Krikor Naregatzi.
box 19, folder 1-25, box 20, box 21, folder 1, 10, box 22, box 27, folder 1, box 29, box 12, folder 27-45, box 13, box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17, box 18, box 23
Research files.
Box 12: Files include material on the following topics concerning Armenian history: Medieval manuscripts in the United States,
education and pedagogy, translation of literature, the alphabet, gospel iconography, Glajor's curriculum and scholastic pursuits,
Magistros' Epic and Christianity.
Box 13: Files on the following topics concerning Armenian history: Grammar, poetry and literature, Gregory Magistros and the
Tondrakians, Plato, Michael Psellos, medicine, architecture, painting, sculpture and the Four Gospels at the Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery.
Box 14-15: Sanjian's notes on Medieval Armenian manuscripts organized by country, state and institution. Materials also include
photocopies of specific manuscripts such as The Jewish Bride from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library and
a box of photos of manuscripts from various institutions.
Box 16: Sanjian's notes on each manuscript in the UCLA Collection of Armenian Manuscripts (Collection 2089). Manuscript files
are organized numerically by manuscript number and name. Materials also include detailed summary description and correspondence
concerning the Glajor Gospel and binding descriptions by Sylvie L. Merian of Columbia University for each manuscript in the
collection.
Box 17: Materials concerning the history of the Glajor Gospel including files on the History of the UCLA Gospel, Esayi's literary
works, the school of Glajor, the manuscripts executed at Glajor, the iconography of the Glajor Gospel and a box of slides
and photos.
Box 18-19, 23: Notes, papers, correspondence, articles, clippings and publications concerning Western-Armenian classical poet
Vahan Tekeyan.
Box 20-21, 23: University of Michigan research materials for Ph.D. dissertation,
The Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay): A Study in Franco-Turco-Syrian Relations. Materials also include Sanjian's seminar papers, his correspondence with the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, bibliographies:
Armenia and Armenians in Academic Dissertations, the Armenian Assembly's Directory of Armenian Scholars and the Armenian Press
Directory.
Box 22: Sanjian's notes on Medieval Armenian manuscripts handwritten in Armenian with photocopies of manuscripts.
Box 29: Sanjian's handwritten notes in Armenian on index cards.
box 24, box 25, box 26
Publications.
Sanjian's publications are organized according to his bibliography as follows: Books, articles in English, articles in Armenian
and book reviews.
Box 24: Bibliography, typescript copies of dissertations, books, offprints, and photocopied articles in English and Armenian.
Box 25: Articles in Armenian, book reviews, UCLA Armenian Manuscript Collection 2089 Catalogue, Sanjian's congressional testimony
concerning the Armenian genocide, unpublished work and typescript of
Armenian Gospel Iconography: The Tradition of the UCLA Gospel by Sanjian and Thomas F. Mathews.
Box 26: Typescripts of
The Armenian Communities in Syria Under Ottoman Dominion.
Books in this collection have been individually cataloged. They are discoverable in the Library catalog with a keyword search
for: "Ex libris Avedis K. Sanjian".
box 19, folder 26-33, box 21, folder 11, box 27, box 28
Audiovisual materials.
Box 19: 2x2 Anscochrome slides of Armenia. Folder 26 contains an outline with description of the slides. Slides include images
of archaeological excavations, ruins, cathedrals, churches, shrines, educational institutions, museums, public buildings and
scenes.
Box 21: Black and white photos and postcards of buildings in Armenia. Captions cite names of structures and architects.
Box 27: Thirteen audiocassettes and sixteen VHS videotapes. Videotapes include the following titles: Cilicia...Rebirth, The
Armenian Woman in Literature and History, The Armenian Genocide and Mandate for Armenia: American Military Mission to Turkey
and Armenia, 1919. Eight audiocassettes are Modern Western Armenian language lessons produced by the Harvard University Modern
Language Center. Five audiocassettes are contained within a small box entitled,
Self Teaching Armenian Language Method Practical Textbook of Western Armenian by Haroutiun Kurkjian.
Box 28: Slides, microfilm, negatives and photos. Images include UCLA Glajor Gospel, Armenia, St. Mark's Gospel, Oregon Gospel
and Jerusalem holy sites.
box 21, folder 2-9
Curriculum vitae and biographies.
Materials include multiple versions of Sanjian's curriculum vitae, a tribute booklet published on the occasion of his 30th
anniversary in Armenian Studies, a memorial resolution by Willie L. Brown Jr., Speaker Emeritus of the California Assembly
and a memorial program from Forest Lawn Mortuary.