Buzandaran Patmutʻiwnkʻ
Faustus portrays the Mamikonians as the great defenders of Armenia, who show undying loyalty to the unworthy Arsacid kings.Along with the Patmutʻiwn Hayotsʻ ("History of Armenia") of Movses Khorenatsi (5th century or later), the Buzandaran Patmutʻiwnk‘ has been referred to as one of the best Armenian sources in Parthian and Sasanian-related studies.[3] Not long after Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘ was composed, another early Armenian historian, Ghazar Parpetsi, commented on the work and concluded that it had originally been written by a "Byzantine scholar" named P‘ostos from Constantinople, but was later modified by some other "ignorant" author who could not have been educated in Byzantium.[12] The epithet Buzand or Buzandats’i was traditionally interpreted as "Byzantine" or "from Byzantium," and was changed at an early date to the more accurate Armenian form Biwzandats’i.Additionally, he had a conservative aristocratic bent and strongly supported the privilege of the descendants of Gregory the Illuminator to hereditarily hold the Armenian patriarchate.[20] Faustus portrays the Mamikonians as the great defenders of Armenia, who show undying loyalty to the unworthy Arsacid kings.[21] The author of Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘ never cites specific sources and only refers to other written texts in the first chapter of the work.