Based on several field trips to mount Athos, the present monograph examines and publushes the texts of seventy post-Byzantine Greek and Slavic documents kept in the monastery of Vatopedi. The author makes an attempt at restoring the monastery`s history from the fall of Byzantium up to the year 1707 commenting many interesting infos ot Vatopedi`s social and cultural relations with the Balkans, the Near East, Italy and Russia.