CHARTOPHYLAX: THE LIBRARIAN IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
CHARTOPHYLAX: THE LIBRARIAN IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

Summary/Abstract: Chartophylax is originated in Byzantium and named a person in the service of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The primary responsability of the chartophylax was the patriarchal archive. In time this position was not assigned to one individual, usually a monk, in the service of the patriarch in Constantinople, who was in charge with the office archive and official documents, but also was assigned to a monk or a nun who used to be responsible with the protection and preservation of the books in the monastery library, as well as with the record of the books lended to the monks in the monastery.

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