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Catalogue of the Georgian Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library

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HARVARD THEOLOGICALREVIEW

VOLUME

XXV

JULY,

1932

NUMBER

8

CATALOGUE

OF THE

GEORGIAN

MANUSCRIPTS

IN

THE

CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

ROBERT

P. BLAKE

HARVARD

UNIVERSITY

THE

Georgian

Manuscripts

of

the

Cambridge

University

Li-

brary, described below, might properly be called Georgian

manuscript fragments.

They

are

without

exception

individual

leaves

of

different codices

which have

come

into the

possession

of

the

Library

at

different

times and from various

sources.

The date of the

documents

varies over

a

wide

range,

from the

earliest

period

of

Georgian literary activity

down to the

last

century,

and the

type

of

scripts employed

is

equally

varied.

The

provenance

of

these

leaves is for the most

part

uncertain.

Nos. 1 and 2 come from the Genizah of the Jewish Patriarchate

at

Cairo,

and form

part

of the

Taylor-Schechter

Collection.

The other

leaves

were

acquired

from

I.

von

Tischendorf

in

1876.1

No.

3,

as

we

shall

see

below,

is

a

fragment

by

the

same

scribe

who wrote

a

manuscript

now at

Oxford,

which was once

at

Jerusalem;

another

is

clearly

Sinaitic

in

origin;

and

I

should

be

inclined

to believe that

the

majority

of the

fragments

are

derived

from these

same

sources.

The importance for Georgian literature of these fragments,

several

of which

are

torn, stained,

and

very

illegible,

is

out

of

all

proportion

to

the

size

of the collection. The two

palimpsest

fragments

of

Jeremiah,

together

with

another

leaf from

the

same

manuscript,

which

is

preserved

in the

Bodleian,

have

opened

up

for

us

a

wholly

new

epoch

in

the

history

of

Georgian

literature,

and

given

an

assured

glimpse

into its

development

at

least two

centuries

earlier

than

had

hitherto been

possible.

They

afford a clue which led to the

discovery

of a series of kin-

dred

documents

in the libraries of the Caucasus

and

elsewhere,

and

they

have

enabled

us to add a

new

and

unsuspected

chapter

to the

history

of the

Georgian

language.

These

revelations

have

1

Letter from

A. F.

Scholfield

under

date

of

January

27,

1931.

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208 HARVARD

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had

unanticipated

repercussions

in

other

fields,

such

as the

textual criticism

of

the New

Testament.

The

fragment

in

capi-

tals of IV

Kingds.

is one of the four bits of

Georgian

Old Testa-

ment text which we

possess

in

this

script;

one of the

others be-

ing

the section of

Jeremiah

just

mentioned.

The

portion

of the

Map'rbpto,

of

the Homerites is

apparently

a

fragment

from

a

sister

codex to

the Oxford

manuscript,

and

moreover

this latter

tome

appears

to be

an

autograph

of

one of the most

remarkable

Georgian

ecclesiastical worthies -

Prochor6,

who

founded anew

the

monastery

of

the

Holy

Cross at Jerusalem

about the

year

1038.

I

have

accordingly

gone

into some detail

in

discussing

the

various

fragments,

and

in

particular

have felt it

advisable to

examine

carefully

the text of the

passages

of

Jeremiah.

This

portion

of

my study

I

have

made into

a

separate

article,

which

follows the technical

description

in

the

catalogue.

In

the

Catalogue

here

presented

the

fragments

are

arranged

in approximate chronological order, The following tables ex-

hibit the

parallels

between

my

own

numbering

and

the acces-

sion numbers

by

which the

leaves themselves

are

recorded in

the

Cambridge

University Library.

Georgian

Ms.

1

Taylor-Schechter

Ms.

12,183

Georgian

MS.

2

Taylor-Schechter

Ms.

12,741

Georgian

Ms.

3

MS.

add. 1890.1

(6)

Georgian

MS.

4

MS.

add. 1890.8

(7)

Georgian

Ms.

5

MS.

add. 1890.3

(15)

Georgian Ms.

6

MS.

add.

1890.4

(10)

Georgian

Ms.

7

MS.

add. 1890.5

(9)

Georgian

Ms.

8

MS.

add. 1890.7

(8)

Georgian

Ms.

9

MS.

add.

1890.6

(9)

Georgian

MS.

10

MS.

add. 1891.1

(15)

Georgian

MS.

11

MS.

add.

1891.2

(8)

Taylor-Schechter Ms. 12,183 Georgian

MS.

1

Taylor-Schechter

MS.

12,741

Georgian

MS.

2

MS.

add.

1890.1

(6)

Georgian Ms.

3

MS.

add.

1890.3

(15)

Georgian

Ms.

5

MS.

add.

1890.4

(10)

Georgian

MS.

6



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CAMBRIDGE GEORGIAN MANUSCRIPTS

209

MS.

add.

1890.5

(9)

Georgian

Ms.

7

MS.

add. 1890.6

(9)

Georgian

Ms.

9

MS. add. 1890.7

(8)

Georgian

Ms.

8

MS.

add. 1890.8

(7)

Georgian

Ms.

4

MS.

add. 1891.1

(15)

Georgian

Ms.

10

MS.

add. 1891.2

(8)

Georgian

Ms.

11

After these

preliminary

remarks we

may

now

pass

on

to a

description

of

the

fragments

themselves.

GEORGIANMS.

1

(Taylor-Schechter

Ms.

12,183)

Fragment

of

a

parchment

leaf,

roughly trapezoidal

in

shape,

with a

highly

irregular

outline.

The

extreme dimensions are:

length

243

mm.,

breadth

184

mm. The

parchment

is of

medium

thickness,

yellowed

somewhat

by age,

and

considerably

stained

and spotted. The edges are frayed from damp, and the body

of

the

leaf

is

perforated

here

and there.

The ink of

the

Georgian

writing

has

eaten

through

the

parchment

in

a few

places

where

dampness

has

been

at

work,

but

the

ink

of the Hebrew

writing

has

not

done this.

The

leaf is a

palimpsest.

The

under

(original)

writing

is

Georgian

in

large

capitals

(asomt'avruli),

while

the

upper

writ-

ing

is

Hebrew.

Each

scribe wrote

in

two

columns,

but the

Hebrew turned the page sideways, and, writing as he did from

right

to

left,

wrote

crosswise

over

the

Georgian,

so that

his

first column

is

at the

bottom of the

Georgian page.

The

result

can best

be

exemplified

in

a

diagram.

GEORGIAN

a

b

We have

here

the

major

portion

of

the

outer

half

of a Geor-

gian manuscript

leaf

with

a

few

fragments

of

the

writing

of

the



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210 HARVARD

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inner

column.

In

all,

18

lines

are

preserved

in

whole or

in

part

in

the

outer

column,

and

the

incipits

of

12

lines

of the inner

column. For convenience we shall term the outer column a and

the

inner column b. The

width

of column a

is

about

90

mm.,

and the

distance

between

the columns

about 20 mm.

The

Ox-

ford

leaf,

which comes from the same

manuscript

and is

com-

plete,

has

20

lines to the

column;

therefore

two lines

of the

Georgian

text have been lost

here,

either

at the

top

or

at the

bottom.

The

parchment

was ruled

lightly

with a

sharp point

on

the

skin side

with a

single

vertical

guide-line

for

the

outer

column

margins.

The characters are

written

on

the

guide-lines.

The

ink

of

the

Georgian script

is now

a

bright

orange

brown,

but

it

has

been

affected

presumably

by

damp,

and was

originally

the

purplish

brown which we often

find

in

old

Georgian

manu-

scripts.

That

of the

Hebrew

is

a

reddish brown

inclining

to

gray.

Owing

to

the

strong tinge

of

yellow,

the

under

script

comes out much better in the photograph than in the original.

The

script

is

large,

bold

and

striking,

traced

by

the

hand

of

a

skilled

scribe,

but

I

should

hardly

call

it

elegant.

As it

is

of

great importance

for

Georgian

palaeography,

it has

seemed

ad-

visable

to

give

a careful

tracing

of

the

actual letters in

addi-

tion

to the facsimile

reproduction

of

the

leaf

(Plates

1-2).

This

has been executed

for

the author

by

his wife

(Plates

lA,

2A).

The date

of

the

Georgian

is a

matter of

conjecture,

but for

various reasons I am inclined to fix it about the middle of the

eighth

century.

This

point

is

discussed

below,

as will

also

be

the

palaeographical

peculiarities

of

the

script.

This leaf

is a

portion

of

the same

manuscript

as

No.

2,

and also as

manu-

script

Bodl.

Oxon. Cod. Hib.

C

1

(=

manuscript

Heb.

2672).

Contents

The Hebrew is a portion of the Jerusalem Talmud, Babs

Qama,

ch.

IX;

it

has

been

published

by

L.

Ginzberg.

1

The

Georgian

text contains

portions

of

Jeremiah

xii.

10-16,

in the so-called

khanmeti dialect. It is here

given

in

full

as it

1

See

below,

p.

225,

note 4.



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means

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letter

is

not

fully

preserved

but

is

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two

points

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2

(Taylor-Schechter

Ms.

12,741)

Two

fragments

of

parchment

forming

part

of the

same

leaf.

This

is

incorrectly

placed

in

the

glass:

the two

sections should

be

transposed

without

turning.

The

width of

both

fragments

is 930

mm.;

the

height

is 116 mm. for

A;

103 mm. for

B;

90 mm.

between columns.

Each

contains

approximately

one

third

of

the

leaf,

from the

top

and the

bottom of

the

page.

This is

a

part

of the same

manuscript

as

No.

1

and as the

Oxford

leaf,

but

the

script

is

distinctly

smaller.



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The

fragments

are

roughly

rectangular

in

shape,

but the

lower

(resp.

upper) margin

is

very irregular. They

are

palimp-

sests, but the Hebrew

writing

runs in the

opposite

direction in

relation to the

Georgian

to what was

the

case

in

No.

1.

In

fragment

A,

parts

of 8

lines are

preserved

in

the

left-hand

column,

parts

of 5 in

the

right;

in

fragment

B,

6

in the

right

and

4 in

the left.

GEORGIAN

The

fragments

are

somewhat more stained than

is

the case

with No.

1,

and none of the

Georgian

is

left

unconcealed

by

the

Hebrew

writing;

but

most of the

Georgian

text can

be

deci-

phered.

It is

not clear

whether the writer of the

Hebrew

wrote

in two columns or not. We reproducethe text (Plates 3, 4) and

give

a

tracing

of the

under

writing

(Plates

3A,

4A).

The

Hebrew

text contains

parts

of the

Jerusalem

Talmud,

tractate

Baba

Qama,

ch.

VIII,

published

by

L.

Ginzberg.

2

The

Georgian

contains recto:

Jeremiah

xx.

9b-10b and 10b-

12,

and

verso:

Jeremiah

xx.

12-14,

14-16.

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transcription

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1890.1)

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f a

page

of

thin

parchment,

riginally

whitebut

nowstainedbrown,whichhasobviously eenremovedroma

binding. Georgian

ext

in

two

columns,

f which

but

one

third

of

outer one

preserved.

On the

back the

text is

badly

worn

and

in

part

covered

with

glue,

on

which s

offset

Greek

minu-

scule

writing

of

ca. saec.

xiv. The

fragment

s

roughly

rect-

angular,

149

by

136

mm.;

width of

column78

mm.;

space

between

columns18 mm.

Script

small

asomt'avruli

f

Sinai-

Palestinian

ype.

Ink black-brown.

5

linesof

text

preserved.Contains

Kingds.

xxiv.3 ff. We

give

a

reproduction

f the

recto

(Plate

15).

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brown

paper

nvelope.

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.

...

.

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passagespreserved

s as

follows:

vs. 4

.

..

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AaVE

a

al

OLvp

avrov

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vs.

6

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.

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MS.

4

(Ms.

Add.

1890.8)

One

leaf of

cream-colored

parchment,

182

by

112

mm.,

script

of

original

hand 135

by

104 mm., 22 lines to basic script, one

column.

Ruled

faintly

with

sharp

point,

double

guard-lines.

Ink

sepia

brown,

rather

faded;

headings

in

cinnabar.

Written

in

Sinaitic

nuskhuri,

rather

small,

with

corrections

and

addi-

tions

by

hand

of

Ivan-&Zosim'

(fi.

972-994

at St. Catherine's



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215

on

Mt.

Sinai),

hence

saec.

x.

At

top

of

page,

quaternion

mark

'"3:' that is, 6. Contains a leaf from a euchologion, or

prayer-book:

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Prayer

for

travellers:

"Thou who art

in all

places

and

ap-

pearest

to

all for

salvation."

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a

g,9ob

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yo

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0o

Prayer

concerning

passions:

"Our Lord

God,

after

whose

image

and

likeness

thou hast

created

man,

and hast

infused

into

him a

living

soul

...

."

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0

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a

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admonition

concerning

a

meeting;

what

shall

I

do? Shall

I

let

him

partake

or

not

of

the

flesh

and

blood of Christ

.

.

.

[Part

of text relined

in

blue-black

ink.

A

bit of

the

Apophthegmata

patrum].

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of

I. Z:

9m

a

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and

illegible)

inc.

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83 cl5aa , O

Lord

Almighty:

at

end

in

capitals

aba

s8abs

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cok

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shalt thou find

in

the

8th hour of evensong.

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I.

Z.:

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cJ"o

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a,

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every

hour;

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saying

of the

holy

apostles:

inc.

30Vc83

8aF8580o

cc~,

I

pray

unto

thee,

Lord.



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GEORGIAN

MS.

5

(MS.Add. 1890.3)

Fragments

of

three

leaves of

fine

white

parchment, lightly

ruled

with

fine

point

on

skin side.

Two

columns with

34

lines

to

a

column,

with

single

guide-lines

for

edges.

The ink

is black-

ish-brown.

The

leaves

in

their

complete

state

measured

384

by

265

mm.;

the columns 295

by

80 mm.

with a

gap

of 2G4

mm.

between

columns.

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script

is

a

bold,

stout,

sloping

nuskhuri,

undoubtedly by the same hand as the Bodleian manuscript

Georg.

1;

this,

as

P. Peeters

has

shown,

3

is

that

of

Prochore,

who founded

the

Georgian

colony

at the

monastery

of

the

Holy

Cross

near

Jerusalem

between 1038 and 1042. See

Plate

6.

Contents

f.

1-2.

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of

the

MaprlbptoP

70i

ay'ov

'Ape8~

Kai

rwv

pEr'

airoi

(BHG,2

166,

p.

26,

and

BHO,

94-106).

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belongs

to the older version, the text of which is published by J. G.

Boissonade,

Anecdota

Graeca,

V, Paris,

1823,

pp.

1-62,

and

thence

in

Acta

Sanctorum

Oct.

X,

721-759.

The

fragments

are

from

the earlier

portion

of the

text.

The

fragment

does

not

form

part

of

the

Oxford

Ms.,

as

this

passion

does

not

ap-

pear

in

that

corpus

at all.

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transcribe

the text with

the

cor-

responding

Greek

passages.

f.

3.

This text

appears

to form

part

of a

life of

St.

Rhipsime.

Exactly

what version the

fragment

belongs

to is difficult to

say.

In

any

case it

has

nothing

to

do

with

the

metaphrastic

Georgian

version

published

by

L.

Melikset-Bekov

from

Ms.

384

(saec.

xi)

of

the

Society

for

the Extension

of

Literacy

among

the

Georgians

(Tiflis

1920).

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give

the

fragment

with

an

Eng-

lish

translation.

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Bollandiana,XXXI, 1912,

pp.

301

ff.



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3'6 8c

gob[b8s 83] And when

they

understood

ab

3c 0

M[cab

sa]

that

. .

.

were

more

con-

863d3f8asq8

W

firmed

. .

.

teaches

. . . stone

sbV385

:

wk.

A3o"

r\

b(f[

and

smoke.



28/31

CAMBRIDGEGEORGIANMANUSCRIPTS

221

verso

.3

a3a3p

o

15j,4d

The

man

contended,

and

Ws

ba8

pOoo

58

3V3

from

the

third

hour

to

the

ob6do~ab.

.s

odaos

tenth hour

they

contended.

8aQ30

6'o

o

8008Q

And

the

king

was

defeated

.

.]3a6a,

ogo

daoow,

.]3

8o0

o

o

bea

who

. . .

with

force

.

9bs 8 b

o(qo6a5bs

while he was in the country of

]837o0

d?830a the

Greeks . . . the future

Q .

8 s b

W

W 3 3 5 3 a

[c8(],

o08363b

860

8ob

ob:

victory

. . . and all

were

as-

[sp]8ao55866

36W5

tonished

at

him.

And

he

[po].

3

onbb

8 b 8

.

[8mco]3bs

c

s8

s

8s8

bound on

the

diadem,

and

I[b]

8(zo10O:

8c63s

unto his

own

paternal

heritage

[,]o

bsJ8O

boa86obsa

he came, and many a deed of

d865:

Mvg

ao

ab var

[]al

o"6m9it?

~oag.

valor

did

he

perform,

for

he

?

.

jobs

mobs

was

thus

famous

.

. .

of

one

[.]

odo~

.3~8bs

bjwoman

. . .

he

was

con-

[bQ]5(5o

Ws

ss

Osa.

]5omt

80m

W

d~

quered,

like a

puling

child

[?,oms

]Jcabomn

:.

(Pvjior)

and

nothing

. .

.

by

]osa

asa1D

the

power

of Christ. . and

]. 5q>

.

a80Ah3o

[

.oW

].a.

~

8s8

became

weary

. . .went

forth

[6t3

801]8535s6

6a

. .

.

and

commanded

to

bring

]8ob

&o56abo

in...

of Gaian

...

a

cangue

].

518

b603

].8obbs

.

a

a

.

..

his and thus

.

. .

they

[ao

81]0o3g36ab

o

-

brought

him.



29/31

222

HARVARD

THEOLOGICAL

REVIEW

GEORGIAN

S.

6

(MS.

Add.

1890.4)

Two

conjugate

leaves

of

thin white

parchment,

somewhat

yellowed.

The two

inner

upper

corners

are

gone.

Ink

blackish

brown.

Headings

in

pale

red asomt'avruli

capitals.

One

col-

umn,

with

33

lines

to the

page.

Rounded,

sloping,

rather

small

and

compressed

nuskhuri.

250

by

214

mm.;

script

188

by

150

mm.

Fragment

of

menaion

for

April.

Saec.

xii-xiii.

inc.

(-def.)

.

.. ?08oms

-

?n

Ja0962

aiV56

8865.

f.

1

v.

oc

saoqb

on

a.

VOs)

a

j

cos

obOahbeq:

3eWo

Wa

eoa2o30abo.

April

15.

The

holy

apostles

Aristarchus,

Podius,

and

Trophimus.

f.

v.

coM'c3oqb

o`3:

Voba 8aO"obs

babs

8mobSa.

April

16. The

holy martyr

Saba the Goth.

des.

(def.-).

83835o60oom

s83588q2?

8]aDBobs

s

mabs

V"0.

GEORGIANMS.

7

(Ms.

Add.

1890.5)

Pair

of

conjugate

leaves,

of which the lower inner

corners

have

crumbled

away

with

damp.

Parchment thin and

grayish

yellow.

Ruled

on skin

side

lightly

with

sharp point.

Triple

guide-lines

in

outer

margin,

double ones

in

inner;

30

lines to

page, script in one column. Ink brown; headings in carmine.

234

mm.

by

188

mm.;

script

180

by

195

mm.

Small

rounded

flowing

nuskhuri.

inc.

56am8

o

88'oms

6

a06i6hbos

o

6onoam

0

368a,o

8m36obaom

(blurred)

6

0'6o

8e6"ma

~"maS60o

ob8ao06

.

.

.

f.

1

v.

3

3"b

aab

0ma

[bs].

f.

2

r.

caaSQ

mb

883bjbab

sj

b

6o.

f.

2 v.

at foot of

page

mutilated

adscription

in

old mkhedruli

in

gray-black

ink

(3

lines):

des.

Ms.

a8

b3x~

n

a39

o

(word

uncertain)

36"~ma

8a(

.

. .

/

Date ca.

saec.

xiii;

part

of

Triodion

for Lent.



30/31

CAMBRIDGE GEORGIAN MANUSCRIPTS

223

GEORGIAN MS.

8

(MS.

Add.

1890.7)

Two

connected leaves

of

grayish-white

parchment

of

medium

thickness.

Script

medium

sized, sloping,

rounded,

and

ligatured

nuskhuri.

Ink

brown;

headings

in

cinnabar. One

column,

32

lines:

220

by

175

mm.,

script

156

by

124 mm.: double

guard-

lines

on

both sides.

inc. V'G(qW 8~a~g8 6b bsg6sabs . . .

f. 1 v.

m

O

o3sobbs

8

":

/

bs

cmob

8808(Tjqobs

b8bqobs

8W30

a

Ts o8s6ob

0ua

8sW

6sb

(sic).

July

2.

Deposi-

tion

of

the

Robe of the

holy

Theotokos

and its

adoration at

Blachernae.

f.

2

r.

m-e o0~3obbs

i?cn:

Fo'bs

o80b

6"obs

.

663s

003ogoboa

.

July

4.

Our

holy

father

Andreas

of

Crete.

des.

bo86d60om

6oa8so03o

o

poV3ba

V

8

3"6~o

bmoba

Part of menaion for July 2-4: ca. saec. xiii.

GEORGIANMS.

9

(Ms.

Add.

1890.6)

One leaf of

parchment,

thin

and

somewhat

yellowed.

Ink

black,

headings

in

vermilion.

27 lines to a column. 228

by

165

mm.:

script

175

by

125

mm.

Niskhuri,

upright

and

pointed,

slightly sloping,

considerably

ligatured,

like hand

1

of

Codex

Tiflis Ecclesiastical

Museum No.

51.

Double

guard-

lines,

faint

ruling

on

skin

side.

Probably

saec.

xii-xiii.

Part

of

menaion

(probably

of

Georgios

Athonites)

for

Septem-

ber:

inc.

..

6a6o~ba

"6s

8b~l5bW

.

.

.

fol.

1

r.

ba3Oga686bs:"3"b:?

-

o'b

3sob66s6bo:

W

80-

8yboa

8obmo.

September

27,

St.

Kallistratos

and

his com-

panions. des. %aomsbabbbWs 3 . Brief adscription n

the

outer

margin

by

a later hand on fol.

1

v.



31/31

224

HARVARD

THEOLOGICAL

REVIEW

GEORGIAN

MS.

10

(Ms.

Add.

1891.1)

One leaf of

pinkish

bombycine

oriental

paper,

rather thin

and much

worn. Ink is brown

and faded and has

eaten holes

through

the

paper.

37 lines

to a

page:

2

columns.

375 mm.

by

290

mm.;

script

305

by

220

mm.;

15 mm. between

columns.

Saec.

xiii-xv.

Text of

a

homily dealing

with New Testament

subjects

(Nicodemus

and the

crucifixion

are

mentioned)

prob-

ably by

John

Chrysostom.

Large

rounded

nuskhuri,

somewhat

sloping,

of the Gelati

type.

Very

imperfect

accents

used,

but

simple

punctuation.

inc.

bb[,]eabs

3Ba"e0vb'5o.

The end

is so

damaged

that

no sense can

be

made

out.

GEORGIAN S.

11

(Ms.

Add.

1891.2)

A

Georgian

letter

on

rough,

ribbed

white

paper

in

86aW6J1,o

(secular)

characters,

200

mm.

by

188 mm.

No

visible

water-

mark

in

the

paper.

Ink black. Date

ca.

1800.

Contents of

private

character;

bOa85eo

Stamboli is

mentioned. The

edge

of the letter

is

cut

away

and

the

signature

is

lost.

Was

written

oVia6$s

b

o5o6 8oaoo5ob

o30ob

O8aO6bs.

This

letter was written the 13th of the month of Marioba"; no

year

is

preserved.

One

other

manuscript

is

classified with the

Cambridge

Georgian

fragments.

This is

MS.

Add.

1890.2(10).

It

is,

how-

ever,

not

Georgian

at

all,

but consists

of two

damaged

vellum

folia

with Armenian texts

in

small,

sloping ardzanagir

capitals.

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