Hizan

Hizan, known to Armenian scribes as Khizan, lies in the mountains south of Lake Van on routes crossing the Armenian highlands. From the late fourteenth century its monasteries supported several manuscript workshops, and in the fifteenth century their painters developed a distinctive style of illumination. The artist Mesrop of Khizan carried this tradition to Persia, where Armenian patrons commissioned richly decorated books in the early seventeenth century.