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Alphabetum Ibericum sive Georgianum cum Oratione

first Georgian-language book printed with movable type

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ23308025 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alphabetum Ibericum sive Georgianum cum Oratione (literally "Iberian or Georgian Alphabet with Prayers") is the first book printed in the Georgian language using movable type in 1629 at Palazzo di Propaganda Fide. The book was printed along with Dittionario giorgiano e italiano by Nikoloz Cholokashvili, the ambassador of the Georgian king Teimuraz I, in Rome. It includes a guide for Latin speakers on reading and pronouncing Georgian written in Mkhedruli script.

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“Alphabetum Ibericum sive Georgianum cum Oratione” enters the record as first Georgian-language book printed with movable type. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alphabetum, Ibericum and sive can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1629—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alphabetum, Ibericum and sive.
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“Alphabetum Ibericum sive Georgianum cum Oratione” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alphabetum, Ibericum and sive provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23308025. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1629.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alphabetum Ibericum sive Georgianum cum Oratione” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.