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The Typicon Pacuriani is a monastic foundation document (typikon) for the Petriconi monastery, composed in Old Georgian. It prescribes liturgical and administrative rule…

The Greater Nomocanon is an anonymous Old Georgian compilation of ecclesiastical canons, surviving in a single manuscript. It served as a standard legal reference for th…

The Lesser Nomocanon is an anonymous Old Georgian canon-law compilation preserved in a single manuscript (Tbilisi A-95). Its modern title is editorial; the original colo…

The Sixth Nomocanon of the Synod of Carthage is a Georgian canonical collection that adapts the acts of the 419 Council of Carthage and later Byzantine synodal rulings.…

The Old Georgian Acts of the Apostles survives in two recensions, Redactions A and B, which represent distinct translation phases from a Greek base. The edition in the T…

The Old Georgian version of Andreas of Caesarea’s Greek commentary on Revelation is a witness to early Byzantine exegesis, transmitted in Georgian monastic circles. The…

The Athonian (Giorgi's) Gospel Redaction is an anonymous medieval Georgian recension of the four Gospels, traditionally attributed to Giorgi the Athonite (1009–1065) of…

The Bakar Bible is the first complete printed edition of the Georgian Bible, produced in Moscow in 1743 under the patronage of Prince Bakar, son of King Vakhtang VI. Bas…

Redaction G of the Georgian Song of Songs is preserved in a single manuscript (Tbilisi, National Centre of Manuscripts, A-95) and shows signs of revision toward the Gree…

The Old Georgian translation of the Catholic Epistles (James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude) survives in early manuscripts such as the Oshki and Gelati Bibles (10th–11th cen…

The Old Georgian translation of the Catholic Letters (James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude) survives in manuscripts such as the Oshki and Gelati Bibles, with a translation t…

The Old Georgian translation of the Catholic Epistles, preserved in manuscripts such as the Oshki and Gelati Bibles, represents a key witness to the early Georgian bibli…

The Old Georgian Catholic Epistles, preserved in manuscripts from the 10th century onward, represent a key witness to the early Georgian biblical tradition. Traditionall…

The Gelati Bible is an anonymous Old Georgian translation of the Bible preserved in a single manuscript (Tbilisi, National Centre of Manuscripts, A-1109), copied at the…

The palimpsest A89 / A844 preserves the four Gospels in an early Georgian asomtavruli script, overwritten by a later text. Its fragmentary state, with lacunae and illegi…

This dossier examines the Old Georgian translation of a commentary on the Pauline Epistles traditionally attributed to John Chrysostom, but possibly compiled or translat…

This work is an Old Georgian translation of John Chrysostom's commentary on the Pauline Epistles, produced by the Georgian monk and translator Euthymius the Athonite (ca…

The Old Georgian version of John Chrysostom's Commentary on the Gospel of John survives in a single manuscript, edited in the Titus digital corpus. Chrysostom delivered…

The Mcxeta Bible is a complete Old Georgian manuscript of the Christian Bible, likely copied at the Svetitsxoveli Cathedral in Mcxeta, Georgia, during the 11th–12th cent…

The Mcxeta Bible Redaction is a medieval Georgian recension of the biblical books, centered at the Sveticxoveli Cathedral in Mxeta. Surviving in manuscripts from the 11t…

The Pre-Athonian Gospel Redaction is an anonymous Old Georgian translation of the four Gospels, representing an early stage of the Georgian biblical tradition before the…

The Georgian Psalms and Odes (Redaction A) is an anonymous translation of the Psalter and Odes, likely from the Greek Septuagint, used in Georgian liturgy and monastic s…

Recension AK is an anonymous Old Georgian biblical text preserved in a single manuscript copied in the 10th–11th centuries, with marginalia indicating liturgical use. It…

This redaction combines the Khanmeti and Adishi Gospels, two early recensions of the Georgian Gospels. The Khanmeti recension preserves archaic linguistic features, such…

The Old Georgian translation of St. Paul's Epistles survives in two redactions (AB) with variant readings, reflecting a complex transmission from Greek and possibly Arme…

This dossier concerns an anonymous Old Georgian redaction of St. Paul's Epistles, designated 'redaction CD', which preserves systematic variant readings characteristic o…

The Old Georgian version of Theophylact of Ohrid's Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel survives in at least one manuscript (Hollis Alma990009282960203941), reflecting the At…

This work is an anonymous version of the Georgian Bible, preserved in the Oshki manuscript (10th century) and the Jerusalem manuscript (11th–12th century). Its register…

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…

The Chronicle of Alexander of Cyprus is a historiographical work surviving only in a single Old Georgian manuscript, attributed to Alexander of Cyprus (fl. ca. 6th c.) b…

The Corpus of Old Georgian Inscriptions is a collection of early Christian epigraphic texts from Georgia, preserved on a single damaged stone. The sole exemplar lacks in…

De articulis is an anonymous Georgian grammatical treatise on the eight parts of speech, modeled on the Greco-Latin tradition but adapted to Georgian. Its sole surviving…

The Georgian Chronicle (Kartlis Ckhovreba), Vol. I, is an anonymous medieval historiographical work that recounts the history of Georgia from ancient times to the early…