Metadata: Collection of Copies of Ancient Georgian Documents
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. 1449
- Title:
- Collection of Copies of Ancient Georgian Documents
- Title (official language):
- ძველი საბუთების პირთა კოლექცია 1072-1829წწ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Date(s):
- 1123/1813
- Language:
- Georgian
- Extent:
- 3,058 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes documents on trading and gifting of estates and serf peasants, bequeathing property and peasants to churches and monasteries, granting of ranks and privileges. Administrative and judicial records, including appeals to Kings of Georgia and other persons of authority can be also found in the collection. The Jewish-related documents include a 1569 order by King Levan of Kakheti on a donation of several families of Jewish serfs to the monastery of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta, a record on a donation of Jewish serfs by the wife of Otar I, the Duke of Argavi, to a monastery at Ananuri (1690), and a record on the donation of a Jewish serf by the elder of the town of Surami to the Catholicos-Patriarch Anton I of Georgia (the donor requested that serf would be baptised; 1755).
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Mtskheta
- 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
