Georgian Academy of Sciences       

K.Kekelidze Institute of Manuscripts

Address:

Merab Aleksidze st., Korp. 3
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel: 36-24-54 36-47-08
Fax: (995 32) 94 25 18
E-mail: [email protected]

Date of foundation:
In 1930 the department of Manuscripts was established in Georgian State Museum on the basis of manuscripts and historical documents of the Scociety for Dissemination of Literacy, Historical-ethnographical Societies, Ecclesiastical Museum and Tbilisi State University. In 1941 the museum entered the system of Academy of Sciences. According to the decission of Georgian Academy of Sciences, the aforementioned department became the Institute of Manuscripts on the bases of the decree of 30th of June, 1958.

Main scientific trends of the Institute are:
Scholarly description of the V-XIX cc. Georgian manuscripts,and manuscripts on other languages and historical documents; descriptions of private archives and their catalogization; textological, codicological and paleographical studies of manuscripts; elaborating and introduction of the manuscripts' curement, hygiene and restoring methods.

Director of the Institute:
Zaza Aleksidze - Corresponding Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences , Dr. of Historical Sciences, Professor.

Publications:

• Old Georgian translations of Grigol of Nazianz' \workin French / with Lovain Catholic University (Belgia)
• Greek accounts of the Iviron Monastery, in French / with the Centre of Byzantine History and Civilization (France)
• Apocriphic texts preserved only in the Georgian Language, published in French / with the Association of Studying Apocriphic Literature (France)
• Georgian insctriptions on the territory of ancient Palestine, in Georgian and English languages. /with the Hebrew Iniversity (Izrael)
• Georgian translations of Maxime the Confessor, in French / with the editorial board "Corpus Christianorum" (Belgia)
• Georgian Pilgrims on the Holy Land, in English / with British Academy
• Critical texts of the "Conversion of Kartli" and the "Life of Syrian Fathers", in Geirgian and French. (France)
• Two volumes of old Georgian scripture / "Braepols" publishing house (Belgia)
• Catalogue of newly discovered Georgian Manuscripts found in St. Katherine's Abbey (Mount Sinai) in Geogian, Greek and English languages / with St. Katherine's Abbey (Athens)

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