The series Sylloge diplomatico-palaeographica (as subseries of the
"Veroffentlichungen zur By-zanzforschung") was founded as a result of
the scientific focus on Byzantine diplomatics and pa-leography at the
Institute of Byzantine Studies of the AAS. It is intended to centralize
studies and research on Byzantine documents; hence palaeographica is
added intentionally, because every research on documents has to
investigate the primary sources, therewith the paleography (and
codicology) of the text transmitters. The volume contains research of
the thematic focus on the Patriarchate of Constantinople and documents
in connection with the chancellery of the Patriarch (in this case the
12th century with Ioannes Xth Kamateros, the 13th century with Manuel
Ist Sarantenos and the 14th century with pro-fessions of faith of the
Registrum Patriarchatus Constantinopolitani) as well as a basic study on
the cartulary B of the John Prodrom monastery at Serrhai illustrating
problems of modern text editions. The first issue of the sylloge is
completed by an analysis of epigrams (a further scientific main fo-cus
of the institute) which are related to documents. Two articles result
from projects, supported by the FWF (project nr. P19818-G02, P
19135-G02).