Kartvelology in the Digital Age: On the Trail of Mzečabuk
Journal Title: Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 27
Abstract
In a recent article, I have provided the first edition of three secondary notes that were added, in a very clumsy nuskhuri hand and in an extremely faulty orthography, to the manuscript Sin.georg. 16 of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai, a Gospel codex that was composed in the Monastery of the Holy Cross near Jerusalem in 992 A.D. The notes have turned out to be personal rogations, probably written by a certain Ḳirile who was the page of a person named Mzeč̣abuḳ; the latter obviously bore the rank of an atabag-amirsṗasalari, which used to be the title of the rulers of Samcxe-Saatabago. In a first attempt at verification, I proposed to identify this person with Mzeč̣abuḳ, son of Q̣uarq̇uare II (the Great) who was the ruler of Samcxe in the second half of the fifteenth century. In the present article, I shall use this example to show how digital means can be applied successfully in Kartvelological research concerning secondary information contained in Georgian manuscripts, historical persons mentioned therein, and the circumstances of their life.
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Jost Gippert
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