BESARION ORBELISHVILI'S "GRDEMLI"- MANUSCRIPTS AND EDITIONS

Abstract

"Grdemli" is preserved in twelve manuscript books in the funds that have reached us. Extensive and short editions are distinguished. There are ten lists of extensive editions and one of short editions. Six of the eleven lists - A-119, 156, 298, S-1596, 3269, K-30130 (N. Berdzenishvili Kutaisi State Historical Museum) - consist of 38 chapters, three - A-1395, 1791, Q-92, Giesm -1114 (S. Makalatia Gori Historical-Ethnographic Museum) - from 37 chapters, The named manuscripts lack the last chapter - "The author of this book answers the people of Pope".  One - A-1591 consists of 26 chapters. The named list is not a short edition. His copyist Kristesia Samadashvili decided to include in her writings all the issues that were hotly debated at the Council of Florence and no agreement could be reached between the representatives of the Western and Eastern Churches. Despite the abbreviated version, this list is not a short edition, as the existing text invariably follows the autograph list of the extended edition. The dissertation deals with the linguistic norms and syntactic-morphological construction of "Grdemli".

Keywords: Grdemli, manuscripts, editions, Textology, structure.