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The Georgian version of the Dionysian corpus, attributed to Petrus Iberus (5th–6th c.), is a translation of the pseudepigraphical Greek works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Are…

The (Pseudo-)Macarian Epistles and Speeches (Makar) is an Old Georgian hagiographical collection attributed to Macarius of Egypt (4th century) but likely redacted betwee…

The Georgian version of Asterius of Amasea's encomium on Phocas of Sinope survives in a single 10th–11th century manuscript (Tbilisi A-95). The Greek original is lost, m…

This volume collects anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic texts, likely compiled for monastic or liturgical reading. The edition is based on the titus corpus, which digit…

This anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic collection, preserved in a single manuscript witness, compiles texts about saints venerated in Georgian monastic circles. The wo…

This anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic collection, preserved in a single 10th-century manuscript with lacunae and corrections, compiles vitae of ascetics and martyrs.…

This volume is a collection of anonymous hagiographic texts in Old Georgian, likely compiled for liturgical reading in a monastic setting. The register is narrative and…

This volume, the fifth in a series of hagiographic collections, contains Old Georgian saints' lives preserved in a single manuscript tradition. The texts, dated paleogra…

This volume collects hagiographic texts attributed to Antoni I (1720–1788), Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, and anonymous authors, preserved in the TITUS Old Georgian c…

This Old Georgian compilation of the passions, miracles, praises, and offices of George the Greatmartyr survives in a single manuscript and is dated by linguistic and li…

The Old Georgian version of Gregory of Nazianzus’ Vita Basili Magni is a hagiographic encomium celebrating the life and virtues of Basil the Great, composed shortly afte…

The Old Georgian version of Gregory of Nyssa's homilies on the Song of Songs is a translation from a lost Greek original, likely produced in a medieval monastic setting.…

This entry describes an anonymous, undated hagiographical and homiletic text preserved solely in the Georgian manuscript 'Mamata scavlani'. The work survives in a single…

This dossier examines an anonymous collection of hagiographical and homiletic texts preserved in two Old Georgian reader manuscripts (Readers I and II). Compiled for lit…

The Keimena redaction (vol. I) is a late medieval Georgian compilation of anonymous hagiographical texts, likely produced in a monastic center. Its manuscript tradition…

The Keimena redaction (vol. II) is a modern compilation of anonymous Georgian hagiographical texts, assembled in the 20th century from earlier sources. The constituent n…

This dossier concerns a set of anonymous Old Georgian hagiographical texts edited by I. Imnaishvili. The work survives in a single manuscript copied no earlier than the…

This anonymous Georgian hagiography, edited by K. Kekelidze, survives in a single manuscript and recounts the legendary life of Makarios, a desert father. The narrative…

This hagiographical text, edited by S. Qubaneishvili and published in the TITUS series, survives in a single Old Georgian manuscript of uncertain date and provenance. Th…

This dossier concerns an anonymous Old Georgian hagiographical text preserved in a single Sinai manuscript, likely copied at the Monastery of St. Catherine. The work sur…

This dossier concerns anonymous hagiographical texts from Georgian synaxaria, as edited by K. Kekelidze. Synaxaria are liturgical collections of saints' lives arranged b…

The Old Georgian version of John Damascene's Dialectica is a translation of the philosophical introduction to his 'Fount of Knowledge', adapting Greek logical terms into…

The Legenda Pancratii Taorminensis is an anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic text recounting the life of Pancratius, a missionary bishop of Taormina in Sicily. The work…

The Vita of Symeon Salos, attributed to Leontius of Neapolis, is a hagiography of a 6th-century Syrian holy fool. The Greek original is lost; the text survives in a 10th…

The Martyrium 40 martyrum Sebastae is an Old Georgian hagiographic text recounting the martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, traditionally dated to 320 CE under Emp…

The Martyrium of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste is an Old Georgian hagiographic text recounting the execution of forty Christian soldiers in Sebaste (modern Sivas, Turkey)…

The Martyrium Hadriani et Anatoliae is an anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic account of the martyrdom of Hadrianus and his wife Anatolia. Preserved in a single manuscri…

The Martyrium Speusippi, Elasippi, Melasippi is an anonymous hagiographic account of three brothers martyred in Cappadocia during the Diocletianic persecution (c. 303–31…

The Martyrium Theodori, Iuliani, Eubuli, Malcamonis, Mocimi et Salamanis is an anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic text that recounts the passion of six martyrs—Theodore…

This work comprises Metaphrastical hagiographical texts for November, translated into Old Georgian from the Greek Menologion compiled by Symeon Metaphrastes around 980–9…

This dossier concerns an anonymous Georgian hagiographical text edited by K. Kekelidze, conventionally attributed to the Metaphrastian corpus. The work survives in a sin…

This Old Georgian hagiographical text, preserved in a single manuscript witness (TITUS-1) dated palaeographically and linguistically to the 10th–11th centuries, recounts…

This anonymous hagiographical text survives only in ms. A 95, a Georgian hagiographical miscellany dated palaeographically to the 10th–11th centuries. The composition da…

This anonymous hagiographical text, preserved in the Georgian manuscript Ath. 8 (57) from the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, is a translation from a lost Greek origina…

The Synaxarium ibericum is an anonymous Old Georgian collection of short saints' lives arranged by the liturgical calendar, used in the Georgian Orthodox tradition. Surv…

The Vita Antonii Ravakha is an anonymous Old Georgian hagiography preserved in a single manuscript within the TITUS collection. It recounts the life of an otherwise unat…

The Old Georgian Vita Dionysii Areopagitae is a hagiographical narrative that blends the legendary apostolic connections of Dionysius the Areopagite with local Athenian…

The Old Georgian Vita Dionysii Areopagitae is a hagiographical work recounting the life of Dionysius the Areopagite, a 1st-century Athenian convert of Paul. It survives…

The anonymous Old Georgian Vita Ioannis Chrysostomi is a hagiographical translation of a Greek life of John Chrysostom (d. 407). It survives in a single manuscript (Tbil…

The Vita Ioannis Edessensis is an anonymous hagiographic account of John of Edessa, a monastic figure whose historical identity is uncertain. The text survives only in a…

The Vita Iohannis Zedazadnensis, Red. A is an anonymous Old Georgian hagiographic work recounting the life of John of Zedazeni, a 6th-century Syrian ascetic who, accordi…

This hagiographical account narrates the life of John of Zedazeni, one of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers credited with introducing monasticism to Georgia. The text follows…