A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts at the Ecclesiastical Historical and Archival Institute of the Patriarchate of Bulgaria: Volume I: Backovo Monastery

This book is the definitive documentation of a significant segment of the Greek manuscript legacy - the organic library of the famous monastery of the Theotokos Petritziotissa (Backovo) near the city of Asenovgrad in Bulgaria. It provides comprehensive scholarly descriptions of thousands of texts, major and minor, that served the liturgical needs andhelped form the mind-set of the Orthodox monastic community on the Balkans.