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2 unusual facts about Georgian National Center of Manuscripts


Begtabegishvili

The early 17th-century head of the house, Begtabeg, was a notable copyist who created one of the best manuscripts of the medieval Georgian epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli (Manuscript H-54, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts).

Georgian National Center of Manuscripts

Here are kept the Russian translations of the correspondence of the Georgian kings, nobles and of their family members, autographs of Lev Tolstoi and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, church writings, etc.


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The codex currently is housed at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (Gr. 27) in Tbilisi, Georgia (not to be confused with the American state).


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