In an article published in 1971 by Armenian academician Levon Khachikyan, the author established that one of the sources Matthew used to write his work was that of an 11th century vardapet named Hakob Sanahnetsi (Hakob of Sanahin).
Matthew's work, Zhamanakagrutyun ( Armenian: Ժամանակագրություն), or Chronicle, which he probably began writing in 1113 and completed before 1140, is written in a dialect of Western Armenian and is rather chronological, covering two centuries from the second half of the tenth through the second half of the twelfth. He was probably slain during the siege of Edessa by Zengi, atabeg of Mosul in 1144. Matthew was especially bitter against Frankish settlers, whose avaricious and imperious rule and ingratitude he condemns in his work. He was a determined opponent of the Greek church and as well as the Latin church. A man of strong convictions, Matthew was born in Edessa sometime in the second half of the 11th century and was a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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