{"product_id":"korneli-kekelidze-etudes-from-the-history-of-old-georgian-literature-volume-i-etiudebi-dzveli-kartuli-literaturis-istoriidan-1956-in-georgian","title":"Korneli Kekelidze. Etudes from the History of Old Georgian Literature, Volume I (Et'iudebi dzveli kartuli lit'erat'uris ist'oriidan). 1956. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eკეკელიძე, კორნელი. ეტიუდები ძველი ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორიიდან. I \/ რედ. მ. თევზაძე ; საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი : სტალინის სახ. თბილ. სახელმწ. უნ-ტის გამომცემლობა, 1956. 342 გვ.\u003cbr\u003eმაგარი ყდა. ფორმატი 70×102\/16. ტირაჟი 5000 ეგზ. პარალელური სათაურის გვერდი რუსულ ენაზე.\u003cbr\u003eმდგომარეობა კარგი: ყდის ქაღალდი მცირედ მოყვითლო და ცვეთილი ნაპირებზე, ბლოკი მტკიცე, ფურცლები სუფთა, ტექსტი სრულად იკითხება.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKekelidze, Korneli. Etudes from the History of Old Georgian Literature : Volume I \/ editor M. Tevzadze ; control corrector P. Labartkava ; corrector Z. Uznadze ; Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR.\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi : Stalin Tbilisi State University Press, 1956. 342 pp.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Format 70×102\/16 (standard octavo, approximately 165×235 mm). Print run of 5,000 copies. With a parallel title-page in Russian.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: cover paper with light age-toning and edge-wear, particularly at the corners and along the fore-edge of the front board; spine sound; text-block firm, sewing tight, leaves clean and the text fully legible throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of Korneli Samsonovich Kekelidze's celebrated series of studies \"Etudes from the History of Old Georgian Literature\" — a fundamental work, here in its first edition, by the greatest twentieth-century scholar of medieval Georgian letters and the founding figure of modern Old Georgian philology. Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962) was full member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the author of the standard two-volume \"History of Old Georgian Literature\" (Karturi lit'erat'uris ist'oria, 1923–24, with multiple expanded editions thereafter), the principal cataloguer and publisher of the Old Georgian manuscript heritage, and the long-time director of what is now the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts in Tbilisi (renamed in his honour after his death). The \"Etudes\" series, of which this 1956 volume is the inaugural number, ran in fourteen volumes between 1956 and 1986 and gathered Kekelidze's substantial scholarly studies across his entire career; the present opening volume contains twenty studies on the principal topics of his philological work: a major opening essay on Shota Rustaveli as \"the great Georgian poet and humanist of the Middle Ages\"; the question of the arrival of the Syrian Fathers in Kartli and the formation of Georgian monasticism; a treatment of Jeremiah the Iberian; studies in the textual tradition of the Mokc'evay Kartlisay (Conversion of Kartli) chronicle; the Old Georgian liturgical calendar; the lives of Constantine Kakhi and Ekvtime the Athonite (Iberian); the methodological essay on translation technique in Old Georgian literature; the lamentation (godebai) genre and its sources; new literary sources for the historiography of Lasha-Giorgi; studies in Old Georgian syntax (the postpositions tsinashe, tana, zeda); and the editorial principles for the publication of Old Georgian literary monuments. The volume is essential to specialists in Old Georgian literature, to Byzantinists working with Georgian sources, to scholars of Eastern Christianity and Caucasian Christianity, and to medievalists working on the Christian East more broadly. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44306286936106,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2269.jpg?v=1777651003","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/korneli-kekelidze-etudes-from-the-history-of-old-georgian-literature-volume-i-etiudebi-dzveli-kartuli-literaturis-istoriidan-1956-in-georgian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}