The Karyes Typikon ( sr, Карејски типик/Karejski tipik) was written for the

Karyes Karyes (Greek: Καρυές, before 1930: Αράχωβα - ''Arachova'') is a village of the Peloponnese peninsula, which is located in the southern part of Greece. The Peloponnese is made up of a number of states and Karyes belongs to the state ...

cell on

Mount Athos Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the peni ...

in 1199 by

Saint Sava Saint Sava ( sr, Свети Сава, Sveti Sava, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; gr, Άγιος Σάββας; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1236), known as the Enlightener, was a Serbs, Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox monk, the first ...

, at the time a

monk A monk (, from el, μοναχός, ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedica ...

and later the first Serbian Archbishop. It is basically a translation from a standard Greek ascetic typikon with some minor changes. It became a model for Serbian solitary or eremitical monasticism also outside of Mount Athos. It is published along with the Catalog of Cyrillic manuscripts from the Hilandar monastery since 1908.

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*{{cite web, last=Bogdanović, first=Dimitrije, edition=Internet, year=1999, origyear=1986, title=Свети Сава: Сабрани списи, location=Belgrade, publisher=Просвета, Српска књижевна задруга; Rastko, url=http://www.rastko.org.rs/knjizevnost/liturgicka/svsava-sabrana/index_c.html, url-status=dead, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224071402/http://rastko.org.rs/knjizevnost/liturgicka/svsava-sabrana/index_c.html, archivedate=2009-02-24 12th-century Christian texts Medieval documents of Serbia Serbian literature Serbian books Serbian manuscripts Saint Sava 1190s works History of the Serbian Orthodox Church Mount Athos Cyrillic manuscripts Athos manuscripts

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