Mokvi Gospels

The Mokvi Four Gospels (Georgian: მოქვის ოთხთავი) is a 13th-century illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels in Georgian, copied in the nuskhuri script and richly adorned with miniatures at the Mokvi Cathedral in Abkhazia.

The Mokvi Gospels contains 329 pages, each 30 x 23.5 cm in size, and a long cycle of 157 miniatures painted on gold.

Daniel himself is portrayed in one of the miniatures as praying before the Virgin Mary.

[1] Naumann and Belting assume that the author of the miniatures was trained in Constantinople around 1290 and brought the Byzantine style to Georgia.

It was repatriated to then-Soviet Georgia in 1945 and found its abode at the National Center of Manuscripts.