The main part of this book is the famous work of philologist Dmitrii Likhachev first published in 1962. Its contents: Work of a medieval knizhnik (bibliophile); Search of versions of the same work; Main categories of text history; Studying a specific version of text; Comparative study of several versions of the same text; Complex study of the history of text; Studying the author"s version; Peculiarities of studying chronicles; Peculiarities of studying translated works; Peculiarities of studying printed texts; Techniques of printing. Likhachev"s work is supplemented by the two new works: Textology of Translated Works (Scripture) by A.A. Alekseev; Principles of publishing Old Russian Chronicles by A.G. Bobbrov. Hardcover. 14 x 20.5 cm.