Greek music anthology : manuscript, [between 1831 and 1835].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Modern Greek (1453-)
Description
492 pages : paper ; 182 x 124 (136 x 65) mm.

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    Subject(s)
    Rare books genre
    Getty AAT genre
    Compiled/​Created
    [between 1831 and 1835].
    Summary note
    Greek anthology, written in part on the island Aegina and in part possibly in Athens. It includes hymns for the official ceremonies of King Otto I, the Bavarian prince who was crowned King of Greece in 1832.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Collation: 1-29⁸, 30⁴, 31⁸, 33¹², 34⁸, 35⁸⁻¹; the seventh and eighth leaves of the thirty-second quire (p. 429-440) and the eighth leaf of the thirty-fifth quire are missing without any loss of text.
    • Layout: 14 lines (scribe A); 11-12 lines (scribe B) per page; frame-ruled on an Arabic ruling board (mastara).
    • Decoration: decorated initials.
    • Music: Modern Byzantine notation.
    • Origin: Written in Greece by two contemporary scribes.
    Binding note
    19th c. Dark-red goatskin over binder's boards.
    Language note
    Greek.
    Script
    Written by two contemporary scribes. Scribe A (p. iii-308, titles, initials, and martyriai in red), wrote in Aegina in March 1831, according to the title in p. v; Scribe B (p. 309-408, 413-434, 445-461, 465-479, 481-490), with decorated initials, some in brown ink as are the neumes.
    Provenance
    Written in Greece, partly on the island Aigina (scribe A), and the other parts possibly in Athens, because it includes hymns for the official ceremonies of King Otto I of Greece.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Fund; 1998, Acc. no. AM 1998-70.
    Cite as
    Princeton Greek MS. 7, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
    Place name(s)
    Greece Aigina.
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