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Le monastere serbe de Chilandar, fonde en 1198 par l'ancien grand joupan Nemanja et par son fils saint Sava, a beneficie du soutien des empereurs byzantins et des rois serbes, grace auxquels il est devenu un des grands monasteres de l'Athos. A la fin du xiiie siecle, le roi Milutin, gendre de l'empereur Andronic II, a particulierement contribue a l'enrichissement du monastere. Ce premier volume des Actes de Chilandar presente tout d'abord de facon detaillee les sources slaves relatives au monastere pour l'epoque consideree, puis l'histoire de Chilandar et celle de son domaine foncier des origines a 1319. Viennent ensuite la description, l'analyse le commentaire et l'edition de quarante-sept actes grecs. Parmi les quatre documents donnes en appendice, figurent un faux et trois actes dont le texte grec est perdu et qui ne sont connus que par une traduction slave. Tous les documents sont reproduits dans un album de soixante-huit planches phototypiques. Parmi ces documents, qui sont de types tres varies, signalons la remarquable serie de chrysobulles conserves en original, souvent accompagnes de leur bulle d'or, delivres par Andronic II et par les coempereurs Michel IX et Andronic III. The Serbian monastery of Chilandar was founded in 1198 by the former Great Zupan Nemanja and his son Saint Sava. Thanks to the support of Byzantine emperors and Serbian kings, it became one of the great monasteries of Mount Athos. At the end of the thirteenth century, King Milutin, son-in-law of Emperor Andronikos II, greatly contributed to the monastery's economic growth. This first volume of Actes de Chilandar begins with a detailed presentation of Slavic sources pertaining to the monastery for the period under consideration, and of the history of Chilandar and his land estate from the origins until 1319. This is followed by the description, analysis, commentary and edition of forty-seven Greek documents. Of the four documents given in an appendix, one is a fake and three are acts whose Greek version has been lost and which are only known in Slavic translation. All documents are reproduced in an album of sixty-eight phototype plates. Among these documents, which are quite diverse in kind, special mention is to be made of the remarkable series of chrysobulla, preserved in the original and often featuring the gold bulla, which were issued by Andronikos II and the co-emperors Michael IX and Andronikos III.

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