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rukopisnaya poema "Barsova Kozha" iz Moskovskago Glavnago Arkhiva Ministerstva Inostrannykh Dyel. (Gives many additional quatrains of doubtful authenticity from the MS. in the Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Moscow; extracted from vol. ii. of "Trudy" of Oriental Commission of Moscow Imperial Archaeological Society.) Quarto. Moscow, 1895.
Vladimir Qiphiani's edition, illustrated, octavo. Tiflis, 1899.
D. Caridchashvili's edition (the nineteenth). With four portraits and twenty-one illustrations. Octavo. Tiflis, 1903.
A handy cheap edition, with preface and glossary and notes. The numbering of the quatrains is that now usually adopted, and agrees with the foregoing English translation. References in the notes are marked "Car."
E. C. (? Bishop Cirion): Vephkhis Tqaosanis shesamotsmebeli masali. (Gives variants, marked in the footnotes "var. E. C.," from a seventeenth-century MS.) Pp. 20–38 in No. v. of "Moambe." Tiflis, 1904.
In December, 1911, Prince George Tseret'heli presented a MS. with illustrations. It seems to be of the seventeenth century.
Other Works.
Professor N. Marr: Vstupitelnyya i zakliuchitelnyya strofy Vityazya v Barsovoi Kozhie (the introductory and concluding strophes of "The Man in the Panther's Skin") being t. xii. of "Teksty i Razyskaniya." St. Petersburg, 1910. References to this are marked "M."
Professor N. Marr: Drevnegruzinskie Odopistsi (ancient Georgian writers of odes, twelfth century), being t. iv. of "Teksty." St. Petersburg, 1902. References to this are marked "M. iv." or "Odes."
J. Abuladze: Me-xii saucunis Kart'hulis mtserlobis khasiat'hi da Rust'hvelis Vep'hkhis Tqaosani. (Contains a glossary of words derived from Persian, Arabic, etc.) Printed in vol. i. of "Dzveli Sakart'hvelo." Tiflis, 1909. References are marked "Abul."
Arthur Leist: Der Mann im Tigerfelle. (A German verse translation.) Octavo. Preface dated 1889. Dresden and Leipzig.
Al. S(aradji)shvili: "Vephkhis Tqaosanis" qalbi adgilebi (The spurious passages in "The Man in the Panther's Skin"). Published in "Moambe," beginning in No. xi. of 1895, and ending in No. vi. of 1901, and would make a volume of 590 pages octavo; it gives the results of a critical examination of the whole poem. Tiflis, 1895-1901. Cf. articles in "Iveria," Tiflis, 1899, Nos. 3, 34, 47.
E. C.: An article in "Iveria," No. 93 of 1895.
