Verso side with palimpsest, beginning of the kontakarion with 1 September (f.53r)
XIII-XIV • Kontakarion-Psaltikon (ff.1r-126r) and Nenanismata (f.127v), the second contrasted reproduction makes a hidden palimpsest visible (patriarchal wri
Read more…Kondak-podoben for Christmas vigil Дѣва дньсь · прѣвѣчьнаго слова in Glas 3
(its model, the Christmas kondak дѣва дньсь пребогата, is missing)
XIII • Sinodal’ny Kondakar’ (kondakar’: mineya from January to December with illumination for Septemb
Read more…Also concerning the book kontakarion the collection of Sinai is exceptional, since it has a great variety of books which has only recently be studied by musicologists as well. Especially the unnotated kondakaria-tropologia are interesting, because th
Read more…Moscow, Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека)
Illumination of the Bogurodžice (Theotokos) healing the arm of Saint John of Damascus (f. 1v)
preceding the miney of the kondakar (f. 2r)
about 1200 (with later added
Read more…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
Read more…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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