Hai en Kōnstantinoupolei vivliothēkai, autokratorikai kai patriarchikē, kai peri tōn en autais cheirographōn mechri tēs Alōseōs (1453)

Published in 1972 by the Athens Scientific Society, this scholarly work by Konstantinos A. Manaphēs serves as a rigorous investigation into the imperial and patriarchal libraries of Constantinople. It explores the preservation of Greek manuscripts from the Byzantine era up until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, providing a detailed catalog and historical analysis of these essential cultural repositories.

Manaphēs, a noted scholar of Byzantine philology and codicology, designed this study to reconcile fragmentary historical evidence regarding the intellectual infrastructure of the Byzantine capital. The work was received by the academic community as a significant contribution to the study of medieval book culture, particularly for its attempt to trace the fate of manuscripts that were dispersed or destroyed following the Ottoman conquest.