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Catalogue of the Georgian Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library

Author(s): Robert P. Blake
Source: The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul., 1932), pp. 207-224
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VOLUMEXXV

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 Library, 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 kindred 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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had unanticipated repercussions in other fields, such as the

textual criticism of the New Testament. The fragment in capitals of IV Kingds. is one of the four bits of Georgian Old Testament text which we possess in this script; one of the others being the section of Jeremiah just mentioned. The portion of the
of the Homerites is apparently a fragment from a
Map'rbpto,
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 exhibit the parallels between my own numbering and the accession numbers by which the leaves themselves are recorded in
the Cambridge University Library.
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian

Ms. 1
MS. 2
Ms. 3
MS. 4
Ms. 5
Ms. 6
Ms. 7
Ms. 8
Ms. 9
MS. 10
MS. 11

Taylor-Schechter Ms. 12,183

Taylor-Schechter Ms. 12,741
MS. add. 1890.1 (6)
MS. add. 1890.8 (7)
MS. add. 1890.3 (15)
MS. add. 1890.4 (10)
MS. add. 1890.5 (9)
MS. add. 1890.7 (8)
MS. add. 1890.6 (9)
MS. add. 1891.1 (15)
MS. add. 1891.2 (8)

Taylor-Schechter Ms. 12,183

Taylor-Schechter MS. 12,741
MS. add. 1890.1 (6)
MS. add. 1890.3 (15)
MS. add. 1890.4 (10)

Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian

MS.
MS.
Ms.
Ms.
MS.

1
2
3
5
6

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MS. add.
MS. add.
MS. add.
MS. add.
MS. add.
MS. add.

1890.5
1890.6
1890.7
1890.8
1891.1
1891.2

(9)
(9)
(8)
(7)
(15)
(8)

Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian
Georgian

Ms.
Ms.
Ms.
Ms.
Ms.
Ms.

209
7
9
8
4
10
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 writing 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

We have here the major portion of the outer half of a Georgian manuscript leaf with a few fragments of the writing of the

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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 Oxford leaf, which comes from the same manuscript and is complete, 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 manuscripts. 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 advisable to give a careful tracing of the actual letters in addition 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 manuscript 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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Cambridge University Library. Taylor-Schechter Ms. 12, 183:

Ms. Georgian 1 recto

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Ms. Georgian 1 verso

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stands in the manuscript: a point in place of a character means

that the letter is not fully preserved but is reasonably certain;
two points (:), that it is quite dubious. Characters in square
brackets are restored from the context.

verso

recto

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GEORGIAN
MS. 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 palimpsests, 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
a

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 deciphered. It is not clear whether the writer of the Hebrew wrote
in two columns or not. We reproduce the 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 10b12, and verso: Jeremiah xx. 12-14, 14-16. The transcription
follows:
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8%9?o 6a8,o6oa

S
6aaos S~Wo
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:
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bdob
8,9(Q
8%9?ob

See below, p. 225, note 4.

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1,
Ms. Georgian 2 recto

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Ms. Georgian 2 verso

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GEORGIANMS. 3

(MS.Add.1890.1)
Fragmentof a pageof thin parchment,originallywhitebut
nowstainedbrown,whichhas obviouslybeenremovedfroma
binding. Georgiantext in twocolumns,of whichbut onethird
of outer one preserved.On the back the text is badlyworn
and in part coveredwith glue,on whichis offsetGreekminuscule writingof ca. saec. xiv. The fragmentis roughlyrectangular,149 by 136 mm.; width of column78 mm.; space
betweencolumns18 mm. Scriptsmallasomt'avruliof SinaiPalestiniantype. Ink black-brown.15 linesof text preserved.
ContainsI Kingds.xxiv. 3 ff. We give a reproduction
of the
recto (Plate15). In brownpaperenvelope.
recto
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right-handcolumn:the left is hopeless:
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endof line.

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The Greektext of Codex B for the passagespreservedis as

follows:
vs. 4 . .. Kga AaVE Kal
70
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.
EKAOPVro
vs. 6 ...
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GEORGIAN MS.

(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 additions by hand of Ivan-&Zosim' (fi. 972-994 at St. Catherine's

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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:
recto
8,33`0

8agsTj~5cos

":

~"o
c803Vcs

so9s

b"c6 W

as88P)65W8 5o.
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Prayer for travellers: "Thou who art in all places and appearest to all for salvation."

aa g,9ob
Qq vcncoQ
-6s
co"b.
566'
'65bs5
bocn6cos
,Q3j3
8
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Prayer concerning passions: "Our Lord God, after whose

image and likeness thou hast created man, and hast infused
into him a living soul
."
: ...
...
830 5moba 8bs
~~3jbs
a83o(?)6P50
?ore at
oboe,
times:
all
Lord
who bemonk
a
of
Prayer
"O
(Typwv)
holdest our truth."
(sic) Vs.5
(,2a 8Mc8om
?
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verso (basic hand)
6 3goob 30b8a" : ~a50b3
d88&A3
aV38c8bV03ob sa 38Q
bs
4
6
J3sbbb .
b ws bobbybs
338oa6c s61J
A brother asked a certain one: 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].
Hand of I. Z: 9m a
(? smeared and illegible) inc.
8sa%3sabo
Lord
Qce 8o'bs 83 cl5aa
Almighty: at end in capitals
,O
8
, This shalt thou find in the
aba s8absk
380z
8cok
83_8th hour of evensong.
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a,
J8bc
cJ"o
a
for
of
the
hour;
every
holy apostles:
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saying
cc~, I pray unto thee, Lord.
inc. 30Vc83
8aF8580o

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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 blackish-brown. The leaves in their complete state measured 384
by 265 mm.; the columns 295 by 80 mm. with a gap of 2G4mm.
between columns. The 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. Fragments of the MaprlbptoP 70i ay'ov 'Ape8~ Kai rwv
pEr' airoi (BHG,2 166, p. 26, and BHO, 94-106). This 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 appear in that corpus at all. We transcribe the text with the corresponding 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). We give the fragment with an English translation.
rectola
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B

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sim6: "Do the will of the king,

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forgiven thee the defilement

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that this not be unto thee, so
that thou mayest pass from
this life to the life of God and

so that thou mayest inherit.

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pass away.
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that . . . were more confirmed . . . teaches . . . stone
and smoke.

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tenth hour they contended.

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he came, and many a deed of
var
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GEORGIAN
MS. 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 column, 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.
on a. VOs) a j
f. 1 v. oc saoqb
cos obOahbeq:3eWo
Wa eoa2o30abo. April 15. The holy apostles Aristarchus,
Podius, and Trophimus.
f.
v. coM
o`3: Voba 8aO"obs babs
a'c3oqb
o8mobSa.
April 16. The holy martyr Saba the Goth. des. (def.-).

ds mabsV"0.
83835o60oom
as83588q2?[8]aDBobs
GEORGIAN
MS. 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. 56am8o 88'oms a06i6hbos
6
o ~0
6onoam
368a,o
8m36obaom (blurred) 6 0'6o 8e6"ma ~"maS60oob8ao06 . . .

f. 1 v. 3 3"b aab
80ma [bs].
6b
bsj
f. 2 r. caaSQ mb 883bjbab

6o.

f. 2 v. at foot of page mutilated adscription in old mkhedruli

in gray-black ink (3 lines): des. Ms. a8
6b3x~n 839
a
o (word
uncertain) 36"~ma

8a(

. . . /

Date ca. saec. xiii; part of Triodion for Lent.

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GEORGIAN

MS.

223

(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 guardlines on both sides.
inc. V'G(qW 8~a~g8 6b bsg6sabs . . .
f. 1 v.-mO o3sobbs 85/": bs cmob 8808(Tjqobs
b8bqobs
6sb (sic). July 2. Deposi38sW
a8W30 a
0ua
of the holy Theotokos and its adoration at
TsRobe
o8s6ob
tion of the
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. bo86d60om6oa8so03o
83"6~o
poV3baV
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 guardlines, faint ruling on skin side. Probably saec. xii-xiii.
Part of menaion (probably of Georgios Athonites) for Septem"6s
ber: inc. .. 6a6o~ba
8b~l5bW . . .
- o'b
fol. 1 r.
W 803sob66s6bo:
ba3Oga686bs:"
g3"b:?
8yboa 8obmo. September 27, St. Kallistratos and his com-

. Brief adscriptionin
3
the outer margin by a later hand on fol. 1 v.

panions. des. %aomsbabbbWs

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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) probably by John Chrysostom. Large rounded nuskhuri, somewhat
sloping, of the Gelati type. Very imperfect accents used, but
simple punctuation.
The end is so damaged
inc.
1"e0vb'5o.
3Ba
sense can be made out.
that no bb[,]eabs
GEORGIAN
MS. 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 watermark in the paper. Ink black. Date ca. 1800. Contents of
Stamboli is mentioned. The
private character; bOa85eo
is
and
of
the
letter
cut
the signature is lost. Was
away
edge
written
oVia6$sab o5o6 8oaoo5ob o30ob
O8aO6bs."This
of
the
of
the
13th
month
was
written
letter
Marioba"; no
year is preserved.
One other manuscript is classified with the Cambridge
Georgian fragments. This is MS.Add. 1890.2(10). It is, however, not Georgian at all, but consists of two damaged vellum
folia with Armenian texts in small, sloping ardzanagir capitals.

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