Copy of a manuscript of Byzantine music, neumes from Saint Catherine's Monastery Mt. Sinai. Contains Canon for Assumption.

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/8041.C0804
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. contains Canon for Assumption".
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.