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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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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.
Georgian literature (Georgian: ქართული ლიტერატურა) refers to a long literary heritage, with some of the oldest surviving texts in Georgian language dating back to the 5th century. A golden age of Georgian literature flourished under the unified kingdom of David IV in the 11th century.
The manuscript has a leather-covered cardboard's binding; it is written on a parchment; it contains 180 sheets, size 24X21,4 cm. it is written in a Nuskhuri script in two columns; the titles are written in red ink; pages of the manuscript are missing; The lower part of the 28th sheet is damaged, and the right side of the 91st and 92nd sheets.
Gani (asomtavruli Ⴂ, nuskhuri ⴂ, mkhedruli გ, mtavruli Გ) is the 3rd letter of the three Georgian scripts. [1] In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 3. [2] Gani commonly represents the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/, like the pronunciation of g in "gun".
The following is an incomplete list of masters of Georgian calligraphy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .