I have phantastic news for scholars occupied with Greek music palæography!
Without having changed the general URL I would like to announce, that all links of the Monumenta had been slightly changed.
https://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/
The new homepage has no l
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Cod. gr. 78
Heirmoi/Katabasiai für den Evangelismos
The Mone Megistes Lavras (Monastery of the Great Lavra: RISM siglum GR-AOml) is not only one of the richest and biggest Lavra monasteries of the Holy Mount Athos, it has also a famous collection of Old Byzantine sticheraria according to the local Cha
Read more…The microfilm of the Bibliothèque nationale, fonds Coislin manuscrit 220. “Coislin notation” was called after this manuscript. The black-and-white reproduction of the film is online since more than a year, but I will soon describe other manuscripts (
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Introduction
The Russian State Library of Moscow (RSL / РГБ for Российская государственная библиотека or RISM siglum RU-Mrg) is the second National Library after the historical one of Petersburg. Du
Read more…Pergamos - Library and Information Center of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Since a very long time I planned to announce this important collection which includes very rare and precious autographs of many important psaltes and Archon pr
Read more…Within the Synodal collection at the Library of the State Historical Museum (гим or GIM as abbreviation for Государственный исторический музей, or RUS-Mim according to RISM) there are 10 menaia (except those for March and July) which are as complete
Read more…Please note that today is Palm Sunday according to the Orthodox (revised Julian) calendar. Thus, you can start right now with the tropologion Codex sinaiticus graecus 759 (see below).
The tropologion developed all the features of the sticherarion and
Read more…Just about the collection of Georgian manuscripts, Stig Frøyshov (2012, 236) wrote:
Read more…The ancient collection counts today 86 codices. It was photographed in its entirety in 1950 by an expedition initiated by the American Library of Congress.
A significan
Suppl. grec 1284, ff. 2-3 & 26
Page of a heirmologion with odes 4 of echos tritos (fol. 2r)
XII • Fragment (bifolio) of an heirmologion (echos tritos section) with relatively developed Coislin notation (not Constantinopolitan!) in the ode order (OdO) f
Read more…During the last months another Heirmologion and two kalophonic manuscripts (an incomplete Menaion of the a Sticherarion kalophonikon and a fragment of a Mathematarion) of the British Library have been published on the pages of "Digitised Manuscripts"
Read more…Bonsoir,
J'aimerais avoir de plus amples informations sur ce manuscrit car il pourrait contenir des neumes (ou simplement des accents).
Merci d'avance pour vos informations.
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N'étant pas expert en liturgie byzantine, je laisse le soin au byzantinistes de commenter !
Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana (I-Rv)
Ms B 80
Garde inférieur, fragment noté ▪ Internet culturale
Ms.B 86
Garde supérieur et inférieur fragment grec noté ▪ Int
XII • Heirmologion with troparia and prosomoia of the Parakletike, KaO Κανόνες, παρακλητικοὶ καὶ ἐγκωμιαστικοὶ πρὸς τὴν ὑπεραγίαν θεοτοκόν· ψαλλόμενοι ἐν τοῖς ἀποδειπνίοις (ἦχος πρῶτος ff. 1–33v; ἦχος δεύτερος ff. 33v–55r; ἦχ
The Cadbury Research Library of the University of Birmingham has published excellent reproductions of the Greek manuscripts of the Mingana Collection of Oriental manuscripts (also Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic etc.). I offer here a descript
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An Irmologion is a liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church and of some Eastern Rite Catholic Churches. It contains texts for singing in church called irmoi (introductory hymns, and sometimes concluding ones) for canons chanted at Matins and ot
Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum
Head-piece for the Canon of the Birth of the Virgin (fol. 2r)
Illumination for Pentecost (fol. 186v)
Head-piece for the Canon of the Eve of the Holy Cross (fol. 289r)
XVII-XVIII • This Armenian hymnal with khaz nota
Read more…I highly recommend a visit on this page which offers plenty of chant manuscripts in different languages (18th-20th century). Unfortunately this website does no longer exist and these links are no longer available. I leave the list, so that you can co
Read more…Digital Library of the Leimonos Monastery:
http://84.205.233.134/library/xeirografa_en.php
For instance two chant manuscripts:
Triodion of the Leimonos Monastery, parts with Coislin notation (12th century)
Read more…La psalmodie byzantine était publiée dans un essay d'Oliver Strunk:
Strunk, W. O., 1960. 'The Antiphons of the Oktoechos', dans: A Musicological Offering to Otto Kinkeldey upon the Occasion of His 80th Anniversary, JAMS 13, 50-67, url: http://www.scri
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