{"product_id":"i-imnaishvili-reader-in-old-georgian-language-volume-ii-sakitkhavi-tsigni-dzvel-kartul-enashi-1966-in-georgian","title":"I. Imnaishvili. Reader in Old Georgian Language, Volume II (Sak'itkhavi tsigni dzvel kartul enashi).  1966. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eიმნაიშვილი, ი. (გამომცემელი). საკითხავი წიგნი ძველ ქართულ ენაში. II \/ რედ. ა. შანიძე ; [ძველი ქართული ენის კათედრის შრომები ; ტ. 10].\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი : თბილისის სახელმწ. უნ-ტის გამომცემლობა, 1966. 239 გვ.\u003cbr\u003eმაგარი ყდა. ფორმატი 70×108\/16. ტირაჟი 1500 ეგზ. პარალელური სათაურის გვერდი რუსულ ენაზე. \u003cbr\u003eმდგომარეობა კარგი: ყდა მცირე ცვეთით კუთხეებზე; ბლოკი მტკიცე, ფურცლები მცირედ მოყვითლო, ტექსტი სრულად იკითხება.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eImnaishvili, Iv. (compiler). Reader in Old Georgian Language : Volume II \/ editor A. Shanidze ; Tbilisi State University, Chair of Old Georgian Language. Series: Works of the Chair of Old Georgian Language, vol. 10.\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi : Tbilisi State University Press, 1966. 239 pp.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Format 70×108\/16 (standard octavo, approximately 165×235 mm). Print run of only 1,500 copies. \u003cbr\u003eWith a parallel title page in Russian.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: light wear at corners and along edges, gilt lettering bright; interior leaves with light age-toning typical of mid-1960s Soviet acidic paper; text-block firm, sewing sound, leaves clean and the text fully legible throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Ivane Imnaishvili's reader of Old Georgian literary monuments, the standard university-level anthology of medieval Georgian texts used in the Old Georgian language curriculum at Tbilisi State University from the 1960s onwards, here issued as volume 10 of the academic series Works of the Chair of Old Georgian Language. The series editor is identified on the title-page as Akaki Shanidze (1887–1987), the founding figure of modern Old Georgian linguistic and philological studies, full member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and the long-time head of the Chair of Old Georgian Language at Tbilisi State University; the volume's compiler and primary editor, Ivane Imnaishvili (1916–2005), was Shanidze's principal disciple and successor at the Chair and one of the leading scholars of medieval Georgian hagiography of his generation. Imnaishvili here gathers a substantial selection of Old Georgian hagiographic, ascetical and historical texts — including extensive material on the Lives of the Sinai Fathers (Sinaur mghvdelta tskhovreba), the Life of Theodore Stratelates (Tsameba Tevdoresi), lives of Saint Avgaroz (Tsameba ts'midisa Avgarozisa), the lives of Saint Sevasti and Saint Phokas (Tsameba ts'midis Pokasi), the deeds of Saint Theodorus and the Sinai martyrs (Tsmida Tevdoreba da Tsameba misi), the lives of Saints Ovane and Solomon, and the actions of Solomon the Bishop and Sin'ana — presented in the Mkhedruli typographic transcription with a complete comparative alphabet table at the head of the volume displaying the three historical Georgian scripts (Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli) alongside their phonetic correspondences. The work is essential to university teaching of Old Georgian and to advanced research in Old Georgian palaeography, hagiography and medieval Georgian historiography, of considerable value also to Byzantinists and to scholars of Eastern Christian textual traditions. With its print run of only 1,500 copies, its restricted intra-departmental distribution within the academic series of the Chair, and the very limited international circulation typical of provincial Georgian-language academic linguistics, the book is now scarce on the international market and rarely surfaces outside specialist Kartvelological institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44306449661994,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2281.jpg?v=1777652799","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/i-imnaishvili-reader-in-old-georgian-language-volume-ii-sakitkhavi-tsigni-dzvel-kartul-enashi-1966-in-georgian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}