Item Summary

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.

Descriptive Information

Title
Kratēmatarion.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 209
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5m60qw77s
Publisher
[between 1400 and 1499]
Language
Greek
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
87 leaves : paper ; 215 x 150 (150 x 95) mm bound to 220 x 153 mm
Source Acquisition
Purchase: by Kenneth and Brooks E. Levy in Greece. AM 2009-32.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
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.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
190

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1b4470ef-ec08-491e-bd9e-2bca67ab1e86/manifest