Adysh Gospels

The Adysh Gospels (Adishi Four Gospels) ( _ka. ადიშის ოთხთავი) is an important early medieval Gospel Book from Georgia.

The oldest extant manuscript of the Georgian version of the Gospels, it was created at Shatberdi Monastery in the southwestern Georgian princedom of Klarjeti (located now in northeastern Turkey) in A.D. 897, and later removed thence to be preserved in the remote village of Adysh (Adishi) in highland Svaneti. The first five folios (30 x 25 cm) of the manuscript are illuminated.

The manuscript was first published, in 1916, by the prominent Georgian scholar Ekvtime Takaishvili. It has been extensively studied by both Georgian and international scholars (e.g., Robert Pierpont Blake of Harvard University). The manuscript is now preserved in the Mestia Ethnographic Museum, Georgia.

See also

*Vani Gospels

References and further reading

*Blake, Robert P. The Old Georgian Version of the Gospel of Matthew from the Adysh Gospels with the Variants of the Opiza and Tbet` Gospels. Edited with a Latin Translation [1933] (patrologia orientalis, 24/1). Turnhout: Brepols, 1976, 167 p.
*David Marshall Lang, Recent Work on the Georgian New Testament.Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1957), pp. 82-93
*Akaki Shanidze, Two Old Recensions of the Georgian Gospels according to Three Shatberd Manuscripts (AD. 897, 936, and 973) [in Georgian] ; (Monuments of the Old Georgian Language, ii. Tbilisi: Academy of Sciences, 1945), p. 062.

External links

* [http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ci4/georgien/sprache/manuscripts/georgian_manuscripts.html Georgian manuscripts]