Orthodox Easter Special: The Blagoveščenskiy Kondakar online

My dear colleague Tatiana Švets, teaching Old Russian chant at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, published the whole manuscript Saint-Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. Q.п.I.32 as a virtual exhibition together with a detailed description of

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Easter Special: The Greek Tropologia of the Sinai Collection (Lavra tes Hagias Ekaterinas)

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

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An expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in 1950 (the Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Slavonic and Georgian manuscripts of the old collection)

Just about the collection of Georgian manuscripts, Stig Frøyshov (2012, 236) wrote:

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

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Heirmologion Fragment in Old Byzantine Notation within a Collection (F-Pn Supplément grec 1284)

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

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Three 17th-century Orthodox chant manuscripts of the British Library collection have been recently published

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"

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Incomplete New Iadgari (Georgian Tropologion) of the British Library online

The first Iadgari manuscript which was published entirely online. I would like to thank Andrew Wade who exchanged with me some precious observations on this source.

Add MS 11282

Hesperinos for Monday and Tuesday (f. 221r)

About 1000 • Incomplete (the t

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Two Music Manuscripts at the Historical Archive Iannis Vlachoiannis

Within the database of the Greek State Archives, there are two rather odd, but also interesting music manuscripts at the Historical Archive "Iannis Vlachoiannis". I would like to thank Charis Kornaros who drew my attention to these manuscripts of the

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Three Anthologies of Byzantine composers written around Ioannes Trapezountios (1730s)

Datation possible to the new appendix at the beginning of Ms. 334 which mentions Ioannes the Protopsaltes (1730s), who was until 1734/1736 still Lampadarios. The Kratematarion (Ms. 336) mentions one composer just as "Lampadarios" and only once as "Io

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Partition cyrillique

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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Fragments grecs notés de la Vallicelliana

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

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Quelques stichéraires de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Gr. 356

Sticheron τὸν τριτὸν τῆς ἐρωτήσεως (δ᾽ 29 June, Peter & Paul, fol. 121r)

XII • Incomplete Menaion part of the Sticherarion with Old Byzantine notation (developed Coislin type, Palestine redaction).

Content: A large part of the beginning of the M

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Collected works by Petros Bereketes (Archeio Demogerontias Symes, Ms. 341) online

Archives of Dodecanese, Archeio Demogerontias Symes

Ms. 341

One cherouvikon to be sung in all eight echoi (fol. 36)

XVIII • ἀρχὴ σὺν θεῷ ἁγίῳ τῶν ἁπάντων ποιημάτων , τοῦ μουσικωτάτου κυρίου κύρ πέτρου , τοῦ κωνσταντινουπολίτου , ὅς τις τουρκιστί ὀνομάζε

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Old Heirmologion (Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy, Ms. Gr. 261) online

Ms. Gr. 261 (Litzica 324)

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

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Anthology dedicated to Petros Bereketis, Daniel the Protopsaltes, and Petros Peloponnesios (Larissa, Central Public Library)

Δημόσια Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη Λάρισας «Κωνσταντίνος Κούμας»

Ms. 5753

Year cycle of koinonika by Daniel the Protopsaltes (fol. 250v)

1780–1820 • The Bible of Constantinopolitan hyphos (Petros' exegetic notation) Ἀνθολογία περιἐχουσα κατὰ τάξιν συλλογὴν τιν

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Complete Hagiopolites (F-Pn fonds grec ms. 360) online

A reproduction of the manuscript 360 of the fonds grec has been published, only the digitalisation of the microfilm in black and white, but in a well readable resolution. Already a look at it reveals, at least in my opinion, that the compilation was

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The Greek manuscripts of the Mingana Collection (Cadbury Research Library of Birmingham)

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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The first Kontakarion (F-Pn fonds grec, ms. 397) online

Grec. 397

Psalmverses of the Allelouiarion in echos plagios tetartos, the refrain is written out in red ink (fol. 43)

late XIII • incomplete Kontakarion in short psaltikon style with Middle Byzantine round notation (monastic oktoechos notation of the S

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Complete Sticherarion of the Vatikan Library (Fondo Ottobon. gr. 380) online

Ottob. gr. 380

Beginning of the Triodion-Pentekostarion (fol. 199)

ἀρχὴ σὺν Θεῷ τῆς ἁγίας τεσσαρακοστῆς ἀρχόμενον
ἀπὸ τὸν κυριακῇ τοῦ τελῶνου καὶ τοῦ φαρισαῖω μέχρι τῶν ἁγίων πάντων

late XIV • Sticherarion with Menaion (ff. 1–198v), Triodion (ff. 199–2

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Vienna, National Library, Cod. Theol. gr. 185 Akolouthiai

With many thanks to Dominique Gatté who indicated this new publication of a digitised manuscript, this time a rather rare type: the Akolouthiai or Taxis ton akolouthion ("Order of services").

Theol. gr. 185

Cherouvikon asmatikon in echos plagios devter

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Cambridge, Trinity College: Complete Sticherarion (15th c)

I thank Dominique Gatté to inform me about this publication.

Cambridge, Trinity College

Ms. B.11.17

Doxastikon oktaechon Θεαρχίῳ νεύματι for the Dormition of the Theotokos, 15 August (fol. 181v)

XV • Sticherarion complete with variants in the redaction o

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