წიგნნი ძუელისა აღთქუმისანი. ნაკვ. 3, ისო ნავესი, მსაჯულთაი, რუთისი / გამოსაც. მოამზადეს ც. ქურციკიძემ და უ. ცინდელიანმა ; საქ. სსრ მეცნ. აკად., ხელნაწერთა ინ-ტი.
თბილისი : „მეცნიერება", 1991. 216 გვ. სერია: ძველი ქართული მწერლობის ძეგლები ; XI₃. მთ. რედ. ელ. მეტრეველი ; მხატვ. გ. ლომიძე.
მაგარი ყდა ყავისფერი დერმატინით, ვერცხლის ცურვით სათაურით და ორნამენტებით. ფორმატი 70×108/16. ტირაჟი 20 000 ც.
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Books of the Old Testament. Part 3: Joshua [son of] Nun, Judges, and Ruth / Old Georgian recensions, prepared for publication on the basis of all surviving manuscripts, with introductory study and critical apparatus, by Tsiala Kurtsikidze and Ucha Tsindeliani ; K. Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences ; series chief editor El. Metreveli ; cover design by G. Lomidze.
Tbilisi : "Metsniereba" Publishing House, 1991. 216 pp.
Series: Monuments of Old Georgian Literature, vol. XI, part 3 (ძველი ქართული მწერლობის ძეგლები, XI₃). Publisher's hardcover binding in brown leatherette, the title and decorative interlace roundel ornaments stamped in silver on the upper cover. Format 70×108/16 (approximately 165×235 mm). Print run of 20,000 copies.
Front pastedown bearing a previous owner's pen-trial in blue ballpoint.
Condition: good.
Volume XI₃ in the foundational scholarly series "Monuments of Old Georgian Literature" (ძველი ქართული მწერლობის ძეგლები), the principal critical-edition series of the Old Georgian textual heritage, issued by the K. Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from the late 1960s under the general editorship of Elene Metreveli. The series brought to print, on a uniform critical-philological footing, the major monuments of Old Georgian religious, historical, and secular literature, drawing on the rich manuscript collections of the Tbilisi Institute of Manuscripts and on Georgian manuscript holdings at Mount Athos (Iviron), Mount Sinai (St. Catherine's), Jerusalem (Holy Cross), and elsewhere. The present volume continues the Institute's critical edition of the Old Georgian Octateuch with the Books of Joshua [son of Nun], Judges, and Ruth, edited from all extant manuscript witnesses by two leading specialists in Georgian biblical philology, Tsiala Kurtsikidze and Ucha Tsindeliani. Their edition presents the textual tradition through its successive Old Georgian recensions, from the early Khanmeti and Haimeti fragments through the Pre-Athonite Bible to the Athonite revisions of the eleventh century, with apparatus drawn from the Oshki Bible (978), the Mtskheta Bible, the Jerusalem manuscripts, and other key witnesses; the volume is supplied with extensive introductory commentary, glossary of variant readings, and full critical machinery. The volume is indispensable for specialists in Georgian biblical philology, in the wider Eastern Christian and Caucasian textual tradition, and in the comparative history of biblical translation; it is also a desirable addition for institutional and private collections seeking a complete run of the "Monuments of Old Georgian Literature" series.