The book is an annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts
preserved in the eleventh-century Greek manuscript 11 of the library of Leimonos monastery
Lesbos Greece. This important codex is a Menaion for June comprising thirty akolouthiai on
saints nineteen of them are hitherto unpublished. The edition of the texts is accompanied by
an introduction a liturgical palaeographical and hymnographical commentary appendices of
unpublished hymns preserved in manuscripts other than Lesbiacus Leimonos 11 and indices.The
introduction examines codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11 and its importance from a liturgical
hymnographical and palaeographical perspective. It is divided into four chapters. The first
presents the liturgical environment of the period from the ninth century when most of the
texts edited were composed to the eleventh when the production of the codex could be placed
and the liturgical books used in the period the structure of the akolouthiai and the festal
calendar of the Byzantine church. The second chapter deals with the content of the texts
edited. Chapter Three presents briefly the life and the hymnographical work of the authors of
the texts. The last chapter of the introduction is devoted to the manuscript tradition of the
texts.
