Primary history of K‛art‛li

Title(s):
  • Primary history of K‛art‛li
Period covered:
4th c. B.C.
Language:
Georgian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (epic history)
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Primary history of K‛art‛li is transmitted exclusively in the ecclesiastical corpus Mok‛ts‛evay k‛art‛lisay (Mok‛c‛evay k‛art‛lisay, Moktseva Kartlisa). It covers especially Alexander the Great's alleged operations in Caucasia and the foundation of the kingdom of eastern Georgia (K‛art‛li, Iberia).
Edition - Translation:
  • I. Abuladze (1963) (ed.) Dzveli k‛art‛uli agiograp‛iuli literaturis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 81-82.
  • B. Gigineishvili, E. Giunashvili (1979) (ed.) Shatberdis krebuli X saukunisa: Dzveli k‛art‛uli mtserlobis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 320.
  • C. Lerner (2004) The wellspring of Georgian historiography: The early medieval historical chronicle The conversion of K’art’li and the Life of St. Nino. London: 139-140.
  • S.H. Rapp (2003) Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Early texts and Eurasian contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 610: Subsidia, 113). Leuven: 257-259.
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • G.A. Melik‘ishvili (1959) K istorii drevnei Gruzii. Tbilisi.
  • S.H. Rapp (1999) 'The pre-Christian cycle of the Georgian Shatberdi Codex: A translation of the initial texts of the Corpus Mok‛c‛evay k‛art‛lisay (The Conversion of K‛art‛li)'. Le muséon 112.1-2: 79-128.
  • S.H. Rapp (2003) Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Early texts and Eurasian contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 610: Subsidia, 113). Leuven: 174-185.