| Scope and Content |
Card base with one black and white print attached. The number 351 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Byzantine Neume H.J.W. Tillyard" is written in ink in the lower right corner. The original description in the catalogue reads: "A Byzantine musical manuscript at the Monastery of Grottaferrata, near Rome: Codex Cryptensis, E. L. II, f. 38b. It contains the Idiomela or Proper Hymns for the fixed days of the Calendar of the Greek Orthodox Church. The original MS. was written about 1280 in a well-formed, clear, but rather stiff, hand, with neumes of the best style of the Round or Middle Byzantine Notation. Afterwards the MS. fell to pieces and many leaves were lost. It was rebound in the 15th century and the missing leaves replaced by copies in a 15th century hand. The page here shown belongs to this second hand. A few variants to the music have been added, either by the same or by a somewhat later, but still 15th century, hand. (photograph by H.J.W. Tillyard)." |
