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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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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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Bonum est 151 (last episode) about Psalm 151 within the Coptic rite

Psalm 151 and the Coptic liturgy

in collaboration with Magdalena Kuhn (Peeters)

Article Coptic Music

During episode 151 of «Bonum est» you will listen to liturgical music in Egypt. The Copts belong to the largest Christian communities of Egypt and they

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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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Two Periodicals of Byzantine Studies online

BYZANTINA . Annual Review of the "Byzantine Research Centre"

http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/BYZANTINA

Digitised since volume 1 (1969). You need to register at Orcid as well, but the journal is available under open access conditions.

ISSN: 1105-0772

BYZANT

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Orthodox Easter Special: Liturgical Chant of the Holy Week with Frédéric Tavernier-Vellas and Adrian Sirbu

Yesterday was Palm Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar. I post here Frédéric's playlist to listen to the whole concert in the right order:

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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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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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Origine byzantine des antiennes carolingiens pour la Fête de l'Épiphanie

Oliver Gerlach pour Allain Ferrand:

On dit que les chants du propre de la messe du 1° dimanche après l'Epiphanie serait d'origine byzantine ?

merci de me donner votre point de vue

It is said that the chants of the proper of the mass of 1 ° Sunday after

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Historical and current recordings of cherouvika realised by Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas

Long cycle

Echos protos (1963):

I also insert the recordings for the cherouvika in the other echoi since you can also download the partitions.

Echos devteros:

Longer version (1959):

Echos plagios protos (Hypapante, 1961):

Echos plagios devteros:

Echos varys

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Maria Alexandru offers an overview about Byzantine studies between 2001 and 2011

Alexandrou, Maria. ‘Neue Trends und Hauptthemenkreise im Bereich der byzantinischen musikalischen Studien, 2001-2011.’ Propylaeum-Dok: Publikationsplattform Altertumswissenschaften (2012). http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/1476/.

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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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Sysse Engberg: « Les lectionnaires grecs »

Résumé

http://irht.hypotheses.org/612

L’église byzantine avait trois livres différents pour la lecture biblique : deux lectionnaires du Nouveau Testament, l’Evangeliarion et l’Apostolos, et un lectionnaire de l’Ancien Testament, le Prophetologion. Ce t

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Petrozavodsk, National Library of Karelia: Znamenny Irmolog (1550-1650) of Old Believers

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

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Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy: Complete Sticherarion (15th c)

Gr. 953

fol. 1 (later scribe)Sticheron of Good Friday (fol. 301r)

XV • Sticherarion: Menaion, later scribe partly replaced missing parts precisely (ff. 1-218), Triodion (ff. 219-266, some pages at the beginning are missing), Holy Week (ff. 267-304r),

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Byzantine chant and all Oriental, Caucasian and Slavonic liturgies

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

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

Musicology today 16 (2013): Musica sacra II

Troparion tis Litys – the Processional Chant in the Liturgical Practices of the Medieval Slavs

Gregory Myers

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

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

Bonum est 151 (last episode) about Psalm 151 within the Coptic rite

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

Two Periodicals of Byzantine Studies online

Orthodox Easter Special: Liturgical Chant of the Holy Week with Frédéric Tavernier-Vellas and Adrian Sirbu

Quelques stichéraires de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

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

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

Origine byzantine des antiennes carolingiens pour la Fête de l'Épiphanie

Historical and current recordings of cherouvika realised by Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas

Maria Alexandru offers an overview about Byzantine studies between 2001 and 2011

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

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

Sysse Engberg: « Les lectionnaires grecs »

Petrozavodsk, National Library of Karelia: Znamenny Irmolog (1550-1650) of Old Believers

Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy: Complete Sticherarion (15th c)

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