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The letters attributed to Antonius are cast as epistolary instruction from an ascetic father to his spiritual children, blending exhortation with doctrinal admonition. T…

The alphabetical Apophthegmata patrum is a collection of sayings and stories of the Desert Fathers, compiled in Greek in the late 5th or early 6th century. The Old Georg…

The Old Georgian version of the systematic Apophthegmata patrum is a monastic wisdom collection preserved in a single manuscript. Translated from a Greek Vorlage, it bel…

The Apophthegmata patrum (Theophil's version) is an Old Georgian translation of a Greek collection of sayings and stories of the desert fathers. The Georgian text, likel…

These excerpts from the Old Georgian version of the Apophthegmata patrum, attributed to a figure named Theophil, represent a distinct recension of the Greek sayings of t…

Arsen Sapareli's 'On the Separation of Georgians and Armenians' is a 9th–10th century Old Georgian theological treatise addressing the ecclesiastical schism between the…

The Old Georgian version of Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron, a set of nine homilies on the six days of creation, survives in several manuscripts, with the earliest comple…

The Codex Satberdiensis is a 10th-century Georgian homiletic and hagiographic compilation preserved in the Satberdi manuscript, a key witness to the Georgian Athonite tr…

This dossier concerns the Georgian translation of Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on the Apostolicum, attributed to the Athonite translator Euthymius the Athonite (ca.…

The Old Georgian version of Dorotheus of Gaza's Teachings and Letters survives in a single manuscript (Sinai georg. 35), copied in the 10th–11th centuries. Dorotheus (c.…

The Petritson version of Ecclesiastes is a Georgian translation preserved in a single manuscript, likely produced at the Petritson monastery (modern Petriconi, Bulgaria)…

Ephrem Minor's Colophons are first-person statements appended to his translations of Greek patristic works. Ephrem Minor, a Georgian monk and translator active in the 11…

Ephrem Minor's Instruction on the Conversion of the Georgians is a medieval Georgian ecclesiastical text that constructs a national conversion narrative for Georgia. Att…

The Asceticon attributed to Ephrem Syrus is a monastic guide preserved solely in a 10th–11th-century Georgian manuscript (Sinai georg. 35) from St. Catherine's Monastery…

The Georgian version (vs. B) of the metrological treatise De mensuribus et ponderibus, attributed to Epiphanius of Cyprus, lists biblical and ancient measures with their…

The Old Georgian text of the Expugnatio Hierosolymae, attributed to Ant.Strat., is a translation of a lost Greek original preserved in a single manuscript. It recounts t…

The Old Georgian version of Flavius Josephus’ Antiquitates Iudaicae I–II survives in a single manuscript (S-1148) and was translated from a Greek Vorlage, likely in the…

The Chronicon of Georgius Monachus (George the Monk) is a Byzantine world chronicle covering from Creation to the mid-9th century. Its Old Georgian translation, likely m…

The Explanatio in Proclum Diadochum by Ioane Petrici is a Georgian commentary on Proclus, a key Neoplatonic philosopher. Written in the late 11th to early 12th century,…

The Commentary on the Apostolicum attributed to John Chrysostom survives only in an Old Georgian translation preserved in a single manuscript. The translation is credite…

The Old Georgian version of John Damascene's Dialectica survives in a single 11th-century manuscript. It is a translation from Greek, likely made at the Gelati or Iviron…

The Old Georgian version of John Moschus's Pratum spirituale (Leimonarion) is a translation of the Greek original, a collection of edifying tales of desert fathers compo…

A collection of minor astrological texts attributed to the 11th–12th-century Georgian Neoplatonist Ioane Petritsi. The register is technical, blending astronomical obser…

Satnoebata kibe (The Interpretation of the Prologue to the Elements of Theology) is a philosophical-theological treatise by Ioane Petritsi, the foremost Georgian Neoplat…

The Old Georgian translation of John of Sinai's Klimax (Ladder of Divine Ascent) is a monastic ascetical work structured as 30 steps (logoi). The Greek original, dated t…

The Georgian version of Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones ad Thalassium survives in a single manuscript (Tbilisi, A-95) and is a translation from Greek, likely made in…

The Old Georgian version of Nemesios of Emessa's De natura hominum is a translation from Greek, likely produced in the 8th–10th centuries as part of the Georgian adoptio…

The work is a Georgian translation of scholia (commentaries) on the orations of Gregory of Nazianz, attributed to a certain Nonnos. It belongs to the genre of patristic…

Obsidio Constantinopolis is a first-person narrative of the 1453 fall of Constantinople, blending historical reportage with apocalyptic and hagiographic elements. It sur…

This anonymous minor theological text, edited by K. Kekelidze, survives only in a single manuscript tradition with no independent witness. Its transmission history is en…

The Old Georgian translation of Proclus’ Institutio theologica is a rare witness to the reception of Neoplatonic metaphysics in the Christian East, transmitted via a Gre…

The anonymous Treatise About the Zodiacal Signs and The Seven Planets (Etlta da shvidta mnatobtatws) is a late medieval or early modern Georgian astrological work. It su…

The Alloquia (Georgian: ልሳነ አበው) is a didactic monastic text attributed to the 6th-century Palestinian monk Zosimas, surviving only in an Old Georgian translation by Eut…