[Signed by the editor] Mtatsmindeli, G. The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius (Tskhovrebay Iovanesi da Eptvimesi). 1946. In Georgian.

[Signed by the editor] Mtatsmindeli, G. The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius (Tskhovrebay Iovanesi da Eptvimesi). 1946. In Georgian.

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[Signed by the editor] Mtatsmindeli, G. The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius (Tskhovrebay Iovanesi da Eptvimesi). 1946. In Georgian.
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[Signed by the editor] Mtatsmindeli, G. The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius (Tskhovrebay Iovanesi da Eptvimesi). 1946. In Georgian.

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გიორგი მთაწმინდელი. ცხოვრებაჲ იოვანესი და ეფთჳიმესი / გამოსაცემად დაამზადა ივანე ჯავახიშვილმა ; გიორგი მთაწმინდელის ენა აკაკი შანიძისა. სერია: ძველი ქართული ენის ძეგლები, 3.
თბილისი : საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის გამომცემლობა და სტამბა, 1946. XVI, 172 გვერდი, 1 ჩართული ფურცელი.
მაგარი ყდა (ქაღალდით გარეკანი). 26 სმ. ტირაჟი 2 000 ეგზემპლარი.
თავფურცელზე - აკაკი შანიძის ხელნაწერი მიძღვნა და ავტოგრაფი ცნობილი ლინგვისტის სერგი ჟღენტისადმი.
ყდა - დამაკმაყოფილებელი: მნიშვნელოვანი დანაკლისი ზურგზე, ცვეთა კიდეებზე. ბლოკი - კარგი: მტკიცე და სუფთა.
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Mtatsmindeli, Giorgi. The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius / prepared for the press by Ivane Javakhishvili ; The Language of George the Hagiorite by Akaki Shanidze. Series: Monuments of the Old Georgian Language, 3.
Tbilisi : Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, 1946. XVI, 172 pp., 1 inserted plate.
Hardcover (paper-covered boards). 26 cm. Print run of 2,000 copies. Added title pages in Russian and English.
Signed by the editor Akaki Shanidze on the half-title page, with a presentation inscription in Georgian to the linguist Sergi Zhghenti.
Binding fair: significant loss to the spine, edge wear to boards. Text block good: firm and internally clean.

A monument of Old Georgian hagiography and philology, this volume presents "The Life of St. John and St. Euthymius" by the 11th-century scholar and cleric George the Hagiorite (Giorgi Mtatsmindeli). The text chronicles the lives of the founders of the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, serving as a crucial primary source for both Georgian ecclesiastical history and the development of the Georgian literary language. This critical edition was initially prepared by the founding father of modern Georgian historiography, Ivane Javakhishvili. Following Javakhishvili's death, the publication was completed by the preeminent linguist Akaki Shanidze, who appended a massive, groundbreaking structural and lexical analysis of George the Hagiorite's language. Issued as Volume 3 in the esteemed "Monuments of the Old Georgian Language" series by the Georgian Academy of Sciences, the book was printed in a limited run of 2,000 copies. This specific copy boasts an extraordinary scholarly provenance: it bears an authentic presentation inscription from Akaki Shanidze to his younger colleague, the notable Georgian linguist Sergi Zhghenti. This direct documentary link between two major figures of Caucasian linguistics elevates the volume from a standard academic edition to a museum-quality association copy, highly desirable for institutions and collectors of Kartvelology and Georgian intellectual history.

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