National Archives presents new book "Georgian Manuscripts and Historical Documents"
The book, compiled by Ketevan Asatiani and edited by Natia Dundua, Dali Chitunashvili and Manana Chumburidze, is available for sale at the National Archives store. Photo via National Archives of Georgia
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The National Archives of Georgia on Friday presented a new book, “Georgian Manuscripts and Historical Documents", combining manuscripts and historical documents preserved in archival funds.
The publication includes illustrations and decorations of manuscripts and historical documents of the 9th-19th centuries, wills, autographs and lists included in the UNESCO World Memory Register, as well as recently discovered palimpsests and seals.
The book, compiled by Ketevan Asatiani and edited by Natia Dundua, Dali Chitunashvili and Manana Chumburidze, is available for sale at the National Archives store, the archive said.
The National Archives preserves about 1,000 manuscripts and more than 15,000 historical documents.
A five-day retrospective of films by the acclaimed Georgian filmmaker Eldar Shengelaia opened on Wednesday at Tbilisi’s National Archives venue to mark the celebrations of the director’s 90th birthday.
Archival exhibits ranging from documents on lives of religious figures in Georgia, photographs of civilian engineering projects and media publications were restored by the National Archives of Georgia over the past year, the institution said in its annual summary.
Professionals at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia restored 42 “unique” historical maps, thousands of books and newspapers throughout 2022, Natalia Elizbarashvili, the Library’s Head of the Conservation and Restoration Department, said on Wednesday in her summary of the institution’s work.
Historical ties between Georgian and Greek communities and relations between the two countries are the central subject of a National Archives of Georgia exhibition that opened its doors in Tbilisi on Wednesday.
Author talks, readings of literature and exhibition and sale of books will be in the programme awaiting visitors of Ze-Kartan, a festival hosted in the mountainous parts of western Georgia’s Adjara region in September.
The Georgian Justice Ministry on Saturday responded to “various fake information” being spread over the fire on the territory of the National Archives in Tbilisi on Friday, saying “no one” had been injured in the blaze and “valuable materials” stored in a separate building had been digitised and their copies saved in the film archives.