Kartlis Tskhovreba (The Georgian Chronicles): The "Queen Anna" Manuscript. First edition. Simon Kaukhchishvili. Tbilisi, 1942. In Georgian.

ქართლის ცხოვრება : ანა დედოფლისეული ნუსხა / დასაბეჭდად მოამზადა ფილოლოგიის განყოფილებამ სიმონ ყაუხჩიშვილის რედაქციით ; წინასიტყვაობა და გამოკვლევა ივანე ჯავახიშვილისა და სიმონ ყაუხჩიშვილისა ; საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია - ისტორიის ინსტიტუტი.
თბილისი : საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის გამომცემლობა, 1942 (იმავე აკადემიის სტამბა).
LXXXIII, [1], 315 გვერდი, რამდენიმე ფოტოფაქსიმილური ტაბულა ხელნაწერის ფურცლებისა ; 22 სმ.
სერია: საქართველოს ისტორიის ორიგინალური წყაროები. A. ისტორიკოსები.
გადაეცა წარმოებას და ხელმოწერილია დასაბეჭდად 28.XI.1942 წ. ტირაჟი 2 000 ც. გამოცემა პირველი.
გამომცემლის ორიგინალური ტილოს ყდა (მუქი წითელი ზურგი, ღია ქაღალდის საფარი დაფებით).
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Kartlis Tskhovreba (The Georgian Chronicles): The "Queen Anna" Manuscript / prepared for publication by the Philology Department, edited by Simon Kaukhchishvili ; with a foreword and study by Ivane Javakhishvili and Simon Kaukhchishvili ; Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of History.
Tbilisi: Publishing House of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, 1942 (printed at the same Academy's press).
LXXXIII, [1], 315 pp., with several photographic facsimile plates of manuscript leaves ; 22 cm.
Series: Original Sources of Georgian History. A. Historians.
Submitted to production and signed for printing 28 November 1942. Print run of 2,000 copies. First edition.
Publisher's original cloth binding (dark maroon spine, cream paper-covered boards).
Binding good: wear to corners and spine ends; spotting to front board, staining to rear board. Text block good: firm, complete, plates preserved.
A foundational monument of Georgian medieval historiography: the first published critical edition of the oldest known manuscript witness of Kartlis Tskhovreba (The Georgian Chronicles), the core compilation of Georgia's medieval national historical tradition. The manuscript itself, known as the "Anna" copy after Queen Anna of Kakheti (wife of King Alexander I), who commissioned it around 1479-1495, was discovered in 1913 by the historian Ivane Javakhishvili in the family library of the Jambakur-Orbeliani house in the village of Lamiskana — the oldest surviving witness to the Kartlis Tskhovreba textual tradition, predating the better-known "Queen Mariam" manuscript published by Ekvtime Taqaishvili in 1906. The Anna manuscript uniquely preserves a chronicle of the reign of Lasha-Giorgi found in no other surviving copy, published here in full for the first time. The present edition, prepared by the Institute of History's Philology Department under Simon Kaukhchishvili (1901-1970), reproduces the complete text together with Javakhishvili's original 1913 study, an extensive new introduction on the manuscript's textual history, a name index, and several tipped-in photographic facsimile plates of manuscript leaves. This 1942 volume directly preceded and underpinned Kaukhchishvili's landmark two-volume critical edition of the full Kartlis Tskhovreba corpus (1955 and 1959), which remains the standard scholarly text to this day; the present wartime edition, issued in a modest run of 2,000 copies under difficult printing conditions, represents the indispensable first publication of this particular manuscript witness and a cornerstone reference for any serious library of Georgian medieval studies, Caucasian historiography, or Kartvelology.