Shanidze, Akaki. Grammar of the Old Georgian Language (Dzveli k'artuli enis gramat'ika). 1976. In Georgian.

შანიძე, აკაკი (1887-1987). ძველი ქართული ენის გრამატიკა / რედ. ი. იმნაიშვილი ; ძვ. ქართ. ენ. კათ. შრომები, ტ. 18.
თბილისი : თბილ. სახელმწ. უნ-ტის გამ-ბა, 1976. 187 გვ. ; 26 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 7 000 ც.
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Shanidze, Akaki (1887-1987). Grammar of the Old Georgian Language / editor I. Imnaishvili ; Works of the Department of Old Georgian Language, Tbilisi State University, vol. 18.
Tbilisi : Tbilisi State University Press, 1976. 187 pp. ; 26 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 7,000 copies.
Condition good: boards with light wear; block firm and complete.

Akaki Shanidze (1887-1987) was the central figure of twentieth-century Georgian linguistic scholarship: one of the founders of Tbilisi State University (1918), Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philological Sciences, and head of the Department of Old Georgian Language at Tbilisi State University for decades. A graduate of St. Petersburg University (1909), Shanidze shaped the entire discipline of Georgian philology and trained a generation of Georgian and international Kartvelianists, among them the Norwegian scholar Hans Vogt, one of the principal early Western specialists in Kartvelian languages. Grammar of the Old Georgian Language (Dzveli k'artuli enis gramat'ika) is his systematic study of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Old Georgian (Classical Georgian) - the literary and liturgical language attested in inscriptions from the fifth century and in a continuous written tradition through the medieval period. The work draws on Shanidze's lifelong engagement with manuscript sources and remains the standard reference for students and scholars of Old Georgian philology worldwide: it is cited as the definitive grammatical authority in international scholarly apparatus, including Wiktionary's Old Georgian etymological entries. Published in 1976 as volume 18 of the Works of the Department of Old Georgian Language, it appeared when Shanidze was 89 years old, still at his post at the university he had co-founded 58 years earlier.