Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria, has died this night in a military hospital after multiple organ failure. He was in intensive care since November 2023.
Funeral on 14 March at the Metropolitan church Sv. Marina:
Public funeral on 15 March at the Patriarch
Read more…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, Cod. gr. 78
XIX · Loose compilation of various hands in Chrysanthine notation with many pages left blank from the Boyar Principality Wallachia: Kekragaria, Ps 140 (ff. 1r-28v), single odes of the Katavasiai (odes 3, 4,
Read more…This manuscript is knows as Yale fragment, written by Peter Lampadarie for archbishop of Sarajevo, written on Church Slavic with Greek letters. Written for service in Serbian Orthodox Churh.
https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3549567?image
Read more…Catalogue of the Greek manuscripts on Mount Athos /
Edited for the syndics of the University Press, by Spyr. P. Lambros.
2 vols
Online on Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies, Anemi
Read more…This is data from Mount Athos Repository LINK
Manuscript No: 0074
Content:
Μουσικό χειρόγραφο - Στιχηράριο.
φφ. 1r-126v: Στιχηρὰ ἰδιόμελα τῶν ἑορτῶν τοῦ Μηνολογίου (Inc. "...ὑμνοῦσί σε, Κύριε· σῦν αὐτοῖς δὲ Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀσώματος...").
φφ. 127r-216
Nikola Antonov with Gregorios Papaemmanouil, Archon Protopsaltes at the Patriarchate of Alexandria,
at the klir of the Rila Monastery
I would like to welcome a new inscribed member here: Nikola Antonov. According to my opinion he is one of the most p
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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 (
Read more…Discussion
After Oliver Strunk’s study of the Byzantine tonal system in 1942, mainly based on Late Byzantine sources of the Papadikai, there has been very few resonance around Christian Thodberg’s study of the tonal system of the kontakarion 60 years
Read more…University Library of Leipzig (D-LEu)
The University reader already has a well made content bar which allows you to go through the manuscript without any further need of a detailed description (see the screenshot). The manuscript which is the main sou
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Beginning of the Pentekostarion notated with developed Coislin notation (f. 125v)
Oktoechos notated with intermediate Chartres notation (f. 194v)
XI • Triodion, Pentekostarion and Oktoechos with Coislin (standard repertoire of the moveabe cycl
Read more…Some selected manuscripts of the collection of Moni Iviron:
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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…Dear friends,
I look for a song from MS Iviron 1203
ΘΡΗΝΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΛΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΠΟΣΝΑΣ (Lament For The Conquest Of Bosna).
Can you help me to find it in original notation?
THANK YOU!!!
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I would like to inform you about this doctoral thesis, because it has not only an accurate codicological description (different hands of scribes and notators, local features of the manuscript like the feast for St Barbaros with an edition and transcr
Read more…Among many other sources the Akolouthiai (τάξις τῶν ἀκολουθίων “order of services”) are one of the most important sources of Byzantine psaltic art. This new book type of the 14th century replaced the old books of the cathedral rite (the choir book kn
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…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
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