The Last Supper/Jesus Walks on Water and calls Peter  During times of political and economic turmoil, manuscript illumination was kept alive in the more remote regions of Armenia, in monasteries. Created in the 14th century, these manuscripts date to a period when the Armenian kingdom was under Mongol rule.The Vaspurakan school comes from the region of Vaspurakan, a formerly Armenian province, now located in northeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran.