the manuscript from being destroyed by the fire that burnt down the monastery library in 1905. Curzon released an inventory of his collection of manuscripts in 1849, the first time the Tetraevangelia was presented to the academic world. Direct work with the original was, however, impossible, which caused speculation, supposition and rumours related to the manuscript. His son placed his collection on permanent loan in the British Museum in 1876, and after her death, his entire collection was given to the museum in 1917 by his daughter Darea, 16th Baroness Zouche (1860–1917), which enabled more detailed examination of the book. When the British Library was created in 1973, the manuscript was transferred to the British Library. In 2017 the manuscript has been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register as a world heritage document. See also Sofia Psalter, 1337 Tomić Psalter, c. 1360 References Sources Dimitrova, Ekaterina, The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, 1994, British Library, Evans, Helen C. (ed.), Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261–1557), # 27, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, , Fully online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and see McKendrick) McKendrick, Scot, in Evans, Helen C. (ed.), Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261–1557), # 27, 2004, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, , Fully online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Milner-Gulland, R.R. "Review of The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander by Ekaterina Dimitrova", The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 1996), pp. 302–304, Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, JSTOR British Library Manuscripts Catalogue entry, and fully digitized with 579 images External links Biggs, Sarah J., British Library manuscript blog Christianity in Bulgaria Medieval Bulgarian literature Athos manuscripts 14th-century biblical manuscripts 14th-century illuminated manuscripts British Library additional manuscripts Bulgarian art Middle Bulgarian language Agiou Pavlou Monastery