Details

Subject(s)

• Church music—Orthodox Eastern Church [Browse]
• Hymns, Greek—19th century [Browse]
• Music, Byzantine—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Neumes—19th century [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton Greek 3. [Browse]
• Petros, ho Peloponnēsios, approximately 1730-approximately 1778 [Browse]
• Petros, ho Vyzantios, d. 1808 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Goatskin bindings (Binding)—19th-century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[between 1800 and 1805].

Summary note

Anthology of hymns for vespers and other parts of the liturgy, composed by Petros Lampadarios and others.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Collation: 1-20⁸, 21⁸⁻¹; the eighth leaf of the twenty-first quire (fols. 161r-167v) has been removed without any loss of text.
• Layout: 16 long lines per page; frame-ruled on an Arabic ruling board (mastara).
• Decoration: head-pieces.
• Music: Late-Byzantine notation.
• Origin: Written in Istanbul, early 19th c.

Binding note

19th-century. Dark-red goatskin over paper pasteboards; with marbled endpapers. The front and back covers have gold-tooled floral-motif borders and ornaments in the center of the panels; in black cloth box.

Language note

Greek.

Script

Copied by Petros Vyzantios, prōtopsaltēs, according to the scribal note on fol. 166r. Petros Vyzantios was prōtopsaltēs of the Great Church of Constantinople between the end of Apr. 1800 and 1805, Cf. Patrinelis.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1942.

Publications about

Patrinelis, Christos "Protpsaltae, Lampadarii, and Domestikoi of the Great Church during post-Byzantine Period (1453-1821)" in Studies in Eastern Chant. London : Oxford University Press, 1973, v. 3, p. 156-157.

Cite as

Princeton Greek MS. 3, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

177449733

Other standard number

• C0879 (Princeton Greek MS. 3)

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