National Library of Republic of Bulgaria

  

La bibliothèque nationale de Bulgarie à numérisé et publié en ligne un grand nombre de manuscrits slavons, grecs et bulgares, dont certains contenant de la notation musicale

 

The digitalization of valuable materials from the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library collections started in 2006. In autumn 2007 these digital images became accessible for users through the library’s website. Over 230 000 files (800 GB of information) have been digitalized so far – manuscripts, old printed books, unpublished documents from the Bulgarian Historical Archive and Oriental Department, portraits and photos, graphical and cartographical editions, Bulgarian newspapers and journals from 1844 to 1944 – images and their systematical descriptions. Users could search in the Electronic archive through the specialized system DocuWare. The digitalized originals are on free access for users. The Digital Library is structured in several collections according to the type of the included documents. The different collections are subdivided in separate sections.

 

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  • By the way, this list made by Analogion members already in 2008, might help, because the Bulgarian description of the Greek manuscripts is not very trustworthy:

    Mουσικά χειρόγραφα που βρίσκονται ψηφιοποιημένα στην ιστοσελίδα της ΕΒΒ "Άγιος Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος" στη Σόφια.
    1. Αναστασιματάριον αργό και μέλη Θείας Λειτουργίας (παλαιά γραφή) gr61
    2. Αναστασιματάριον αργό με προθεωρία (παλαιά γραφή) gr62
    3. Αναστασιμάριον Πέτρου (παλαιά γραφή) gr64
    4. Ανθολογία Παπαδικής (παλαιά γραφή) gr76
    5. Ανθολογία Παπαδικής (παλαιά γραφή) gr80
    6. Μουσική Ανθολογία (παλαιά γραφή) gr81
    7. Γραμματική Μουσικής Θεωρητικής και Πρακτικής gr90
    8. Εισαγωγή εις το Θεωρητικόν και Πρακτικόν της Εκκλησιαστικής Μουσικής (με κανόνιο μεταβολής κλιμάκων) gr91

    link: http://analogion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18976

    The links do not work, so that I recommend to click on the third category "signatura" (Сигнатура) in the search mask, then you choose "select list" and all the signatures available appear. They are only a few.

    Dominque, qu'est-ce que le manuscrit dans cet image que tu as pris ici?

  • This is phantastic, not only for the Byzantinists point of view, also the Arabic and Turkish manuscripts tell about the marvelous collection of this library!

    The only disadvantage for which Bulgarian academics have already a kind of reputation, horrible search masks just in the native language (and it does not help at all, even if you understand it!).

    The territory of Bulgaria lies between the Slavic part like Wallachia, while the largest parts in the South-West had been Greek and are full of the oldest ruins and monuments of Constantinopolitan architecture, even earlier than the Hagia Sophia (Plovdiv was known under the name Philippoupolis and in its historical centre, there is one of the most marvellous monuments for mosque architecture, although it is not even mentioned in most Wikipedia articles of the town). Jacques Thibaut wrote a very amusing report about the researcher's hunting after the typikon of the Backovo monastery. Even the support of the patriarch did not help to convince the monks to give access to it. The reason was, Backovo was founded by a Byzantine officer who reveived its estates as a present from the Emperor. Gregory Pakuriani was of Armenian origin. The first abbot wrote in the typikon that the language of this monastery is Armenian and that Greek monks should not be in charge od higher offices, because they tend to gain all the power...

    Scholars feared since 10 years that most of most of the precious manuscripts will vanish soon, because there were no funds to organize the necessary restorations. I hope that this problem was solved as well with the digitization project.

    Merci mille fois pour l'annoncer, Dominique!

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