His most recent work (2005) was the compilation and cataloging of Armenian illuminated manuscripts at the university.

- 1333) was a 14th-century Armenian architect, sculptor and a master artist of Armenian illuminated manuscripts.

It is named after Toros Roslin, the most prominent master of the Armenian illuminated manuscript in the Middle Ages.

Armenian illuminated manuscripts form a separate tradition, related to other forms of Medieval Armenian art, but also to the Byzantine tradition.

Early Armenian Illuminated manuscripts are remarkable for their festive designs to the Armenian culture; they make one feel the power of art and the universality of its language.

The Armenian collection is also composed of 2,500 Armenian illuminated manuscripts, which include such prominent examples as the Echmiadzin Gospel (989) and the Mugni Gospels (1060).

His works are influenced by the richness of Armenian illuminated manuscripts, the daggers of medieval Arabia and Europe, and the ornamentation of Central Asia and Persia.

The earliest identification of Gabriel as the trumpeter that S. Vernon McCasland was able to trace was in an Armenian illuminated manuscript dated 1455, at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

In 1923, he stayed briefly at the Armenian monastery of the Mekhitarist Brotherhood in the St. Lazzaro island of Venice, Italy, where he studied science and Armenian illuminated manuscripts.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) keeps an Armenian illuminated manuscript dating back to the 14th century among its collection of Armenian manuscripts, which is one of the largest in the world.

It is a notable example Crusader art, which resulted from a merging of the artistic styles of Roman Catholic Europe, the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire and the art of the Armenian illuminated manuscript.

The second largest collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts is stored in the depository of St. James, in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem of Armenia's Holy Apostolic Church.

Among the objects to be seen are a magnificent alabaster bowl from Egypt's Old Kingdom (about 2700 B.C.), a ninth-century B.C. Assyrian bas-relief of the Genius of Spring and Armenian illuminated manuscripts of the 12th to 14th centuries.