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The first part of a
two-volume work comprising all the books of the Old Testament, except for the Psalms, the
Book of Chronicles, and the Book of Maccabees. This first part contains: Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Judges, Ruth, Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Ezra,
Nehemiah, Esther, Judith, and Tobias. The manuscript was written for a Byzantine patrician
of Georgian descent named John Cordvaneli, surnamed Tornik, at Oski Monastery in the
district of Tao-Klardjeti in Georgia. It originally comprised three volumes, but they were
bound as two, the third part becoming the second volume. It is a fine Georgian literary
monument, written in hieratic minuscule script (nuskhuri), and originates from a notable
spiritual centre in ancient Georgia.
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