The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
401–500
1 work
c. 476–483
Georgian
Iakob Tsurtaveli
An Armenian princess married to a Georgian prince who converts to Zoroastrianism to please the Persian king. She refuses to follow him, is beaten, dragged by the hair, and imprisoned for six years in a cell where she dies, attended by the priest who wrote this down.
901–1000
3 works
951
Georgian
Giorgi Merchule
The life of a monastic founder who cleared forest in the mountains of Tao-Klarjeti and built a dozen houses there, told with unusual attention to landscape, building, and argument with local nobles. It contains the sentence that Georgia is wherever the liturgy is celebrated in Georgian.
c. 965–990
Georgian
Ioane Zosime · 10th century
Liturgical hymns and calendars compiled at Sinai and Mar Saba, including a celebrated praise of the Georgian language as a tongue laid in the tomb until the last day.
c. 985–1028
Georgian
Euthymius the Athonite · c. 955–1028
Greek scripture, liturgy, and patristic works rendered into Georgian at the Iviron monastery on Athos, along with a Greek version of an Indian Buddhist tale reworked as a Christian romance.
1001–1100
1 work
c. 1044–1065
Georgian
Giorgi Mtatsmindeli · 1009–1065
A revision of the Georgian scriptures and service books against Greek originals, undertaken to bring the Georgian church into line with Byzantine usage.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1110–1130
Georgian
Ioane Petritsi · 11th–12th century
A translation of and commentary on Proclus, arguing that Neoplatonic metaphysics can be reconciled with Christian doctrine.
6 of 1774 works