Javakhishvili, I. The Aims, Sources, and Methods of History, Then and Now. Book 1: Old Georgian Historical Literature (5th-18th centuries). Tbilisi, 1945. In Georgian.

ჯავახიშვილი, ივანე (1876-1940). ისტორიის მიზანი, წყაროები და მეთოდები წინათ და ახლა. წიგნი I, ძველი ქართული საისტორიო მწერლობა (V-XVIII სს.) / რედაქტორი ს. ყაუხჩიშვილი.
თბილისი : სტალინის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის გამომცემლობა და სტამბა, 1945. 448 გვერდი.
რბილი გამომცემლური გარეკანი. ოდნავ გადიდებული ფორმატი. ტირაჟი 3000 ც.
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Javakhishvili, Ivane (1876-1940). The Aims, Sources, and Methods of History, Then and Now. Book 1: Old Georgian Historical Literature (5th-18th centuries) / edited by S. Kaukhchishvili.
Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University (Stalin) Press, 1945. 448 pp.
Paper publisher's wrappers. Slightly enlarged format. Print run of 3,000 copies.
Wrappers worn: corners rubbed. Text block good: complete, text legible throughout.

Ivane Javakhishvili (1876-1940) was the founder of modern academic Georgian historiography, the first rector of Tbilisi State University (founded 1918), and the towering figure of twentieth-century Kartvelology, whose scholarship established source-critical, philologically rigorous standards for the study of Georgian history where none had previously existed. This volume, the first book of his projected multi-part survey "The Aims, Sources, and Methods of History, Then and Now," offers a comprehensive source-critical account of the entire corpus of Old Georgian historical writing from the fifth through the eighteenth centuries: the hagiographical martyrologies that stand among the earliest surviving Georgian literary monuments, the Life of St. Nino, the Conversion of Kartli, the medieval chronicle tradition compiled in the "Kartlis Tskhovreba" (The Georgian Chronicles) - including Leonti Mroveli, Juansher, and the anonymous historians of King David the Builder and Queen Tamar - through to the eighteenth-century historians Vakhushti Batonishvili, Sekhnia Chkheidze, Papuna Orbeliani, and Oman Kherkheulidze, concluding with a chapter on a then newly discovered redaction of the Kartlis Tskhovreba. First issued in incomplete form in 1916 and again, in an expanded but still unfinished state, in 1921, the work was never brought to completion by Javakhishvili himself before his death in 1940; this 1945 edition, prepared under the editorship of the Byzantinist and Kartvelologist Simon Kaukhchishvili, reconstitutes the 1916 and 1921 texts into a single integral volume with a full index and errata. It remains, eight decades on, the standard source-critical reference for the study of medieval and early modern Georgian historiography, foundational to virtually all subsequent scholarship on the Kartlis Tskhovreba and its constituent texts.