Metadata: Collection of Georgian Ancient Acts
Collection
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Reference number:
- f. 1448
- Title:
- Collection of Georgian Ancient Acts
- Title (official language):
- ძველი საბუთების დედანთა კოლექცია 1029-1850წწ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Date(s):
- 900/1850
- Language:
- Georgian
- Extent:
- 10,510 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes pre-modern Georgian documents and manuscripts, along with materials from the 18th and 19th centuries. The thematic coverage of the collection is quite broad; it includes: administrative materials – governmental and municipal legislation, regulations on various issues, documents on foreign relations; judicial materials, including papers related to the status of enserfed peasants; trading documents, taxation lists and other financial documents, lists of military conscripts. The Jewish-related materials of the collection include records of Jewish individuals and families in various lists and reports. Cadastral lists mention members of the Natvalashvili, Israelshvili, Tsertsiashvili and other families from the towns of Mdzovreti and Tabatskuri (1750), members of Krihely. Elikashvili and Ishakashvili families (1845) along with other families and individuals. Records of trading and other agreements refer to Jewish individuals who served as witnesses for land selling and other deals, such as Moshe and Noakh Krihely who are mentioned in business deals records from 1785, Shmuel Iosebashvili, listed in records from 1839, and Gavriel Tsitsuashvili, Eliah Krihely and David Mamistvalov, registered in a list from 1863. A transactions list from 1690 mentions the Jew Kakiashvili, while a list from 1781 includes Isaac and Daniel Hakhmiashvili (some other alike records can be found in the collection). Jews are also listed in debt and taxation records, such as Joseph and David Davitashvili, mentioned in a debtors list from 1805. Jewish serfs appear in several records and documents, such as an order of the Georgian king Alexander I concerning the liberation of Jewish and other serfs from the village of Yeniseli (region of Kakheti, 15th century). Jewish serfs, members of the Shamilashvili family from Kutaisi are mentioned as a part of a donation made by queen Mariam, the wife of Solomon II of Imereti, to the Martvili Monastery (1808); Jewish serfs from the area of Surami are listed in a 1822 record on the sale of a vineyard, and in a record on the sale of an estate near Tskhinvali.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Eliseni
- Tskhinvali
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2017