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Of the three scripts, Mkhedruli, once the official script of the Kingdom of Georgia and mostly used for the royal charters, is now the standard script for modern Georgian and its related Kartvelian languages, whereas Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri are used only by the Georgian Orthodox Church, in ceremonial religious texts and iconography. [1]
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Anchi Gospel is a Georgian manuscript of the Gospel dating back to the 11th-12th centuries and kept in the National Archives of Georgia. Anchi's Gospel is written on parchment, in Nuskhuri script. The front side of the gospel is stamped with silver, decorated with green glass. The holy book is accompanied by a colorful miniature of Matthew the ...
Georgia has a centuries-old tradition of a calligraphic school. Hand-written books from the early centuries became a cultural and a national phenomenon in Georgia. Christianity had played an enormous role in Georgian literature life since the Georgian Orthodox Church and its monks contributed their life to the Georgian writing by creating manuscripts and all the historical records for the Georg
Jesus and the Four Evangelists from the Vani Gospels. The Vani Gospels (Vani Four Gospels; Georgian: ვანის ოთხთავი, Vanis otkhtavi) is an illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels in the Georgian nuskhuri script dating from the end of the 12th–early 13th centuries.
It is written in the Mrglovani script in two columns in black ink, while the titles and special places are written in red ink; the size of the text is 18.5-19X13.5 cm; the distance between the columns is 1.5 cm; there are 23 lines in the column on pages 1–25 and 20 on the rest of the pages.
This period produced notable works like The Book of Wisdom and Lies by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, alongside works by David Guramishvili and Bessarion Gabashvili. Themes of a suffering homeland and grief resonated during this era. Despite Persian oppression, Georgian authors often displayed admiration for Persian language and poetry. [1]
Georgian manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew from the Alaverdi Gospels, 1054. The Bible was first translated into the Georgian language as early as the 5th century. [1] The Vani Gospels (Vani Four Gospels; Georgian: ვანის ოთხთავი, Vanis otkhtavi) is an illuminated manuscript of the gospels in the Georgian Nuskhuri script dating from the end of the 12th–early 13th ...