Details

Subject(s)

• Orthodox Eastern Church—Hymns—19th-century [Browse]
• Byzantine chants—19th-century [Browse]
• Hymns, Greek—19th-century [Browse]
• Music, Byzantine—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Neumes—19th-century [Browse]
• Sacred vocal music—Greece—19th-century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paper [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1876.

Summary note

Anthology of chants in post-Byzantine neumes. Bound manuscript in glazed Arabic paper. It is written in Greek script, in red and black ink; 292 unnumbered folia; Inscription on fol. 4r references the name of the former owner: "Autē hē Anthologia hyparchei tou papa Iōannē apo Avdēmē. Etos 1876 Phevrouariou 26." There are a lot of blank folia. The manuscript is bound in gold-tooled binding on hard boards covered with goat skin, with a Crucifixion scene on the front panel and the Virgin Mary with the Child on the back; sewn on 6 bands.

Notes

• Title supplied by the cataloger.
• Layout: 11 double verses per page; frame-ruled on an Arabic ruling board (mastara).
• Inscription on fol. 1r. reads: "Hyparchei tou papa Iōannē ex Audēm[.]. 1875[...]."
• Inscription on fol. 292v: "Kai tōde allois pollois pephyka / Geōrgios."

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2012-20.

Other title(s)

Io Protopsaltou.

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