Details

Subject(s)

• Orthodox Eastern Church—Hymns—19th century [Browse]
• Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados—Liturgy [Browse]
• Composers—Greece—19th century—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Church music—Orthodox Eastern Church [Browse]
• Byzantine chants—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Hymns, Greek—19th century [Browse]
• Music, Byzantine—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Sacred vocal music—Greece—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Composer

• Daniēl, Prōtopsaltēs [Browse]

Related name

• Petros, ho Peloponnēsios, approximately 1730-approximately 1778 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Hymns [Browse]
• Notated music [Browse]

Summary note

Anthology of offertories (cherouvika) and communion (koinōnika) chants in the version of Daniēl Prōtopsaltēs and Petros Lampadarios for the Divine Liturgy (cherouvika-offertories), for the feasts of the Apostles, and for the services of Christmas and Holy Week, the Annunciation of the Theotokos, Easter, Pentecost, as well as other religious holidays (despotic and Marian feasts).

Notes

• Incipit: Cherouvika kat'ēchon syntethenta hēdytata te kai entechna para kyriou Daniēl prōtopsaltou tēs megalēs ekklēsias.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. [2] + 120 + [2]
• Layout: 11 double lines per page.
• Description: Written in Byzantine music notation in black and red ink ; large initial letters in red ; without signatures ; modern foliation. Written by the anonymous scribe of MS. K 179 of Monē Megistēs Lauras (Athos, Greece). At least six more manuscripts are ascribed to the scribe. See Manolēs K. Chatzēgiakoumēs, Cheirographa ekklēsiastikēs mousikēs, 1453-1820, Athēna 1980, pp. 185-6, no. 104. Among the composers named are Petros Lampadarios (ca. 1730-ca. 1778, also known as Petros Peloponnēsios) and Daniēl Prōtopsaltēs. Title in spine reads: "Anthologia."

Binding note

Bound in brown leather on hard boards with gilt anthemium designs in spine (lightly worn); sewn on four raised bands.

Language note

Greek;

Script

Byzantine neumes.

Source acquisition

Purchased in memory of Professor Kenneth Levy, *49 *55, Scheide Professor of Music History, by the Princeton University Library, with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2014-72.

OCLC

875638228

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