library
Mount Athos (Great Lavra)
963–1100
attested. Attested by founding rules (typika) and charters.
Hermits lived on Athos before the Great Lavra was founded in 963. The mountain became the chief monastic centre of the Orthodox world, with a Georgian house (Iviron, c. 980) and later Slavic houses, and holds one of the largest collections of Byzantine manuscripts.
Place: Great Lavra · On the map
People
- Athanasius the Athonite (founded the Great Lavra, 963)
- Nikephoros II Phokas (patron)
Manuscripts made here
Monastic libraries of Byzantine Greek, Georgian and Slavonic manuscripts
Kept now: still on Athos (e.g. Great Lavra, Iviron, Vatopedi); some, like the Codex Marianus, removed in the 19th century