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Transmission des Textes: Catalogues (CATA) D. Getov A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the National Library ?Sts. Cyril and Methodius?, Sofia XX+506 p., 165 b/w ill. + 11 colour ill., 216 x 280 mm, 2019 ISBN: 978-2-503-58612-0 Languages: English, Greek, Latin Hardback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 95,00 This catalogue offers the definitive documentation of a significant segment of the Greek manuscript legacy now kept at the National Library in Sofia, Bulgaria. It provides comprehensive scholarly descriptions of thousands of texts, major and minor, that served the liturgical needs and helped form the mind-set of the Orthodox monastic community in the Balkans. Dorotei Getov is a classical philologist-turned-student of Greek manuscripts, currently employed as Senior Researcher in Byzantine Literature by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at its Institute for Literature. He has published several catalogues of Greek manuscripts kept in Bulgarian libraries as well as the editiones principes of the so-called Florilegium Mosquense and of a collection of scholia to the Byzantine legal corpus known as Basilika. Table of Contents Introduction Bibliographical Abbreviations Manuscript Descriptions General Index Initia of Unedited or Unrecognized Texts Plates