Note 285 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.
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Dr. R. P. Blake of Harvard, specialist in Russian and Caucasian history, has been kind enough to furnish the writer with the following references on the love of nature in the medieval Orient: Krachkovskii, The Divan of Abu’l-Wāwā, a Hamdanid Poet of the Eleventh Century, text, translation, introduction, and commentary, Academy of Sciences, Petrograd, 1916 (in Russian); N. I. Marr, Georgii Merchul, Zhitie sv. Grigorii Khandzt‘iiskago (George Merchul, Life of St. Gregory of Khandzt‘a), text, translation, and introduction, with a diary of a journey to Klarjet’ia and Shavshet’ia, Teksti i Raziskaniya po Armyano-Gruzinskoi filologii (Texts and Studies in Armenian and Georgian Philology), vol. vii, Petrograd, 1911; Life of St. Serapion, published by M. Janashvili K’artuli Mcerloba, in vol. ii of his Georgian Literature, Tiflis, 1909 (in Georgian). Latin translations of the two latter texts, which testify to the love of wild nature, have been published by the Bollandist, Paul Peeters, in: Analecta Bollandiana, vol. xxxvi-xxxvii, for 1917–1919, Brussels and Paris, 1922, pp. 159–309.