Unique Unit From the Scientific Library Fund of the Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology

The article is about the unique unit (RAR-4065) of the rarity publications fund of The Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology scientific library. It is a “History” by the patriarch of Jerusalem Dositheus. According to the colophons of the book we be-come aware that this unit was belonged to Prince David, the son of Kartl-Kakheti king Giorgi XII. That means that the mentioned book is from the royal library, family library of the Bagrations. Later, in 1847 Nikoloz Palavandishvili with the help of archimandrite Iakob sent it to the Patriarch of Jerusalem Kirill (Kirill II – 1845-1871). Archimandrite Iakob took the book himself.