Aghniashvili, Vladimir — Editor of Khalkhuri Zghaprebi, the 1891 Georgian Folklore Society collection from which Wardrop selected Part I.

Caucasus — The multilingual region between the Black and Caspian seas. Kartvelian traditions form one part of it and should not represent the entire region.

demi / devi / mdevi — Wardrop's historical spellings for a giant or demonic being in Georgian and Mingrelian tale worlds. Her note connects the word with Persian div. Meaning varies by story and language.

Georgian — A distinct Kartvelian language with a long written tradition. Part I derives from a Georgian source, but Wardrop's published page contains English translation rather than Georgian text.

Guria / Gurian — A western Georgian region and its regional Georgian cultural and speech tradition. Wardrop's Part III contains fourteen Gurian tales through an anonymous Russian printed source.

Kartvelian — The language family containing Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan. It is a family label, not a synonym for Georgian.

Khalkhuri Zghaprebi — The Georgian title of Aghniashvili's 1891 printed collection, the immediate source for Wardrop's sixteen Part I tales.

Laz — A distinct Kartvelian language closely related to Mingrelian, associated especially with Black Sea communities in present-day Turkey and Georgia. No Laz work is currently held on this shelf.

Machabeli, Prince Ivané — Georgian writer and translator of Shakespeare who read Wardrop's proofs. He is not the collector or translator of the whole volume.

Mingrelian / Megrelian — A distinct Kartvelian language, ISO 639-3 xmf, often represented by the native name Margaluri nina. Wardrop's historical preface calls it a dialect; the shelf does not repeat that classification as present fact.

Mingrelskie Etyudy — A. A. Tsagareli's 1880 Mingrelian-and-Russian source collection. Wardrop's eight Mingrelian tales and twenty-eight proverbs derive from it.

oral-literary tradition — Composed, remembered, and reshaped through performance and circulation rather than only through authored books. Print preserves a witness, not the whole performance history.

source lineage — The chain by which a text reaches the reader: teller, collector, transcription, editor, printed language, translator, electronic edition, and public page.

Svan — A distinct Kartvelian language of Svaneti with oral, song, and narrative traditions. No Svan work is currently held on this shelf.

Tsagareli, Aleksandr — Collector and editor of the Part II source. He gathered Mingrelian materials in 1876–1879, chiefly in Sachichuo and Salipartiano.

Wardrop, Marjory — Selector and English translator of the 1894 volume. Her brother Oliver assisted with Russian material; Prince Ivané Machabeli read her proofs.