Prof. Dr. Cyril P. Pavlikianov, Dr. Habilitatus (D.Sc.), Ph.D., M.A. was born in Sofia in 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Byzantine History at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens in 1998. He was Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Philology in 1998–2001, and Associate Professor of Byzantine Literature in 2001–2007 at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. In 2004 he obtained the scientific degree of Doctor Habilitatus (Doctor Scientiarum) in Mediaeval History, and in 2007 was elected full Professor of Byzantine Philology and Palaeography in the University of Sofia.

The book offers the reader a diplomatic edition with historical and topographical comment of the medieval Greek and Slavic (prevailingly Serbian) documents kept in or referring to the Athonite monastery of Hagiou Pavlou (St. Paul). These acts were composed during the period 1010-1644 and are 51 in toto. The Greek documents are 31 and the Slavic are 20. Moreover, there are three counterfeits – two Slavic and one Greek.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION    7-9

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS     10-20

THE ARCHIVES OF THE ATHONITE MONASTERY OF HAGIOU  PAVLOU (ST. PAUL)    21-23

LIST OF THE GREEK AND SLAVIC DOCUMENTS OF ST. PAUL FROM  THE PERIOD 1010-1644      24-27

CHRONOLOGY AND PROSOPOGRAPHY OF ST. PAUL  FROM 1010 TO 1580      29-47

GREEK AND SERBIAN ACTS OF ST. PAUL     49-258

ILLUSTRATIONS    259-310

MAPS OF THE PROPERTIES OF ST. PAUL    311-317

INDEX   319-343