Adysh Gospels
The Adysh Gospels is an important early medieval Gospel Book from Georgia.
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The oldest dated extant manuscript of the Georgian version of the Gospels, it was created by Mikaeli at Shatberdi Monastery in the southwestern Georgian princedom of Klarjeti in AD 897, and later removed thence to be preserved in the remote village of Adysh in highland Svaneti. The first five folios of the manuscript are illuminated.
The manuscript was first published, in 1916, by the prominent Georgian scholar Ekvtime Takaishvili. It has been extensively studied by both Georgian and international scholars. The manuscript is now preserved in the Mestia Ethnographic Museum, Georgia.Text
It lacks text of Christ's agony at Gethsemane, and pericope of the adulteress, Longer Ending of Mark, the tradition of an angel who stirred the waters at the Pool of Bethesda, necessity for praying to Jesus, parable of two men in the field, Jesus' remark about his listeners, Jesus' speech about cutting sinful feet, and Jesus' advice to forgive sins to others, Jesus' remark about people who do not go without prayer or fasting, and one of Jesus' condemnatory sentences towards Scribes and Pharisees ; Thus providing the only Georgian witness for the omission of these passages.
The gospel also has some interesting variants. For example, in both Matthew 19:24 and Mark 10:25 the text reads "rope" instead of traditional "camel".
