AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THE TWO FRAGMENTED  SCROLL MANUSCRIPT  (H-1411, H-2064)

Nino Megeneishvili; Shorena Tavadze

Nino Megeneishvili Doctor of Philology, Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts Tbilisi, Merab Aleksidze str, N1/3, 3093, Georgia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-9117
Shorena Tavadze PhD, Restaurateur, Ap. Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Art, Korneli Kekelidez Georgian Netional Center of Manuscripts 1/3 Merab Alexidze str. Tbilisi, Georgia, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6216-9093

Abstract

A new complex field of manuscript studies - fragmentology - represents one of the important movements in modern codicology, which creates the basis for a comprehensive study of fragmentary manuscripts, their identification, their relationship to the originating culture, the preparation of a detailed archaeological description, and the determination of the conditions for their protection and preventive conservation. Interdisciplinary study of fragmentary manuscripts involves the systematization of information and the identification of all related components. The manuscript heritage has preserved a large number of fragmentary manuscripts, covering a extensive chronological period, and manuscripts that are interesting in terms of thematic and material. Of the diverse and rich heritage preserved in the Georgian manuscript repository Korneli Kekelidze of the National Manuscripts Center of Georgia, only a part has been fully studied and published, including less studied fragmentary manuscripts. Moreover, most of them are unknown even to professional circles and are not in scientific circulation.

The aim of the research is a multidisciplinary study of Georgian manuscript fragments,H-1411, H-2064, preserved Korneli Kekelidze at the Georgian National Manuscript Center: Textological-codicological research, archeographic description, indication of palaeographic features, description of artistic value, diagnosis of the structure of the manuscript material, develop protection conditions and integrate existing material into international scientific circulation.

Keywords: Kontakion, Manuscripts, Scroll, Codicology, Structure.