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7 Greek kontakaria of the Sinai collection (ET-MSsc)

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

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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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