| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
BSA SPHS Image Collection |
| Reference No. |
BSA SPHS 01/8040.C0803 |
| Level |
Item |
| Description |
Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative. Image taken from a manuscript. |
| Dimensions |
18.5 x 12.5 cm |
| Place |
Saint Catherine's Monastery Mt. Sinai
|
| Dates |
1912 |
| Donor/Creator |
Tillyard, Professor Henry Julius Wetenhall
|
| Scope and Content |
The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Byzantine church music. neumes from Sinai. early ornate linear system". |
| Notes |
Dates probably to 1912 as Tillyard mentions photographing MSS in the monastery in Sinai in a footnote of his article on Byzantine music in the Annual of the British School at Athens (1912/1913) and his article in American Journal of Archaeology (1916). Images were donated to the SPHS collection in 1926. |
