The Athos Codex of the Georgian Old Testament

Georgian literature, if it must yield the palm to the Armenian for extent and variety of content, is in at least one respect distinctly superior to its neighbor. A large body of extremely ancient manuscripts have survived, which have preserved to us a highly diversified series of texts. And in gener...

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Published in:The Harvard theological review 1929-01, Vol.22 (1), p.33-56
Main Author: Blake, Robert P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Mercy
Old Testament
Pencils
Prayer
Printing
Quaternions
Scribes
Sons
Theology
Wisdom
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Summary:Georgian literature, if it must yield the palm to the Armenian for extent and variety of content, is in at least one respect distinctly superior to its neighbor. A large body of extremely ancient manuscripts have survived, which have preserved to us a highly diversified series of texts. And in general the oldest Georgian manuscripts usually contain the most valuable material. This is true of the Old Testament; the most complete, and on the whole the best, surviving manuscript of that is likewise the oldest. About this manuscript much has been written, but hardly anything has been published from it, and, strangely enough, no detailed description of it has ever appeared. The account herewith presented rests on a careful personal study of the entire codex in the original and in photographs.
ISSN:0017-8160
1475-4517
DOI:10.1017/S001781600000047X