I present henceforth an overview of these reports, as a background for the comments to follow.
The letter collection provides rich information on the Patriarch’s travels and activities in the Romanian lands.
1 I discussed later, in an article in Revue des études sud-est européennes, 2 the letters preserved in a miscellany due to Mūsā Ṭrābulsī, a secretary of Patriarch Sylvester, which he had exchanged with Antiochian hierarchs and monks. In a book published in 2016 that I dedicated to the early Arabic printing achieved by several hierarchs of the Antiochian church in the Romanian Principalities, with help from major local printers, I included a chapter about the travels of Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch and his printing work in Iași and Bucharest. 1 Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch and his journeys to the Romanian lands
