For the entirety of the medieval period until the end of the 15th century, the archives of the Karakallos Monastery have only seven documents. It is by far the smallest collection in a Monastery on Athos. The oldest document is only from 1294, and three more documents are preserved for the period 1568 to 1600. Professor Cyril Pavlikianov who studied them notes that fortunately there are some surviving interesting Greek, Slavic and Western references of the 18th and 19th centuries to compensate for the lost content of the archives of Karakallos.
