Résumé :
The libraries within the monastic republic of Mount Athos contain about 14,500 Greek manuscripts at the present day. Taken as a whole they constitute the largest single collection of Greek manuscripts in the world. This enormous body of material, amassed during the course of ten centuries, cannot be properly studied until it is fully and satisfactorily catalogued. Yet, as anybody can see, the cataloguing of so many thousands of codices is a very difficult undertaking. This problem of cataloguing the manuscripts of Mount Athos is in fact a question that merits discussion. The possibility of solving the problem by new methods also deserves consideration. Litsas attempts to present the material concerned, and to describe some of the difficulties which arise in cataloguing it. He begins with a brief historical survey of the libraries of the Holy Mountain, followed by a short description of them, of the manuscripts they contain, and of the quality of the catalogues that already exist.
