Holy Stavroniketa Monastery

ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPTS From 10th to 17th Century

by Chryssanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi and George Galavaris

Over 15,00 manuscripts and miniatures remain in the monasteries of Mount Athos, a significant treasure. These volumes are the result of a monumental undertaking by the Holy Stavronikita Monastery to publish the whole of its illustrated manuscripts, in colour, of the Tenth to the Seventeenth century, previously only selectively available to the public and scholars in miniature. The manuscripts, the accumulated labour of Byzantine scribes, known but often anonymous, “preserved not only the texts of Christianity but also the works of ancient Greek literature”.

Cover type: Hard
520 pages
Edition #1 published in 2007 by Holy Stavroniketa Monastery.
ISBN: 978-960-86507-6-3