Details

Subject(s)

• Orthodox Eastern Church—Hymns—15th century [Browse]
• Orthodox Eastern Church—Liturgy—15th century [Browse]
• Byzantine chants—15th century [Browse]
• Church music—Orthodox Eastern Church [Browse]
• Hymns, Greek—15th century [Browse]
• Music, Byzantine—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Neumes—15th century [Browse]
• Sacred vocal music—Greece—15th century [Browse]
• Composers—Greece—15th century—Manuscripts [Browse]

Related name

• Glykys, Iōannēs [Browse]
• Kladas, Iōannēs, ho Lampadarios, 14th cent [Browse]
• Klovas, Nikolaos [Browse]
• Koukouzelēs, Iōannēs [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Hymns [Browse]

Summary note

Greek music manuscript containing a collection of kratēmata (sing. kratēma) (kalophonic compositions). Included are Teretismata by the following composers: "Iōannē Koukouzelē," "Iōannē Lampadarē", "tou Klouva" (fol. 26r), and "tou Glykeōs." Some of the titles for kratēmata found in the manuscript are: persios (Persian), aēdōn (nightngale), polemikos (polemic), tetraphonos or ēchēma, plagios, megalon sēmantron (elongated bell), entechnon (artistic), dyskolon (difficult), trochos, phthorikon, and tou vasileōs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by the cataloger.
• Physical description: 13 double lines per page; written in middle-Byzantine music notation in brown-black and red ink on European paper, probably Italian. The watermark is a dragon (basilic), similar to Dieter and Johanna Harlfinger, "Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften" (Berlin. 1974), no. 21 (1445) ; large initial letters in red ink; 87 unnumbered folia; marginal notes; first and last pages incomplete.

Binding note

Bound in the Preservation office, 2009.

Language note

In Byzantine neumes.

Source acquisition

Purchase: by Kenneth and Brooks E. Levy in Greece. AM 2009-32.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340430136

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