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Auction archive: Lot number 38

Readings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on the use of this form of notation, manuscript on paper [Byzantium, fifteenth or sixteenth century]

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,564 - US$3,846
Price realised:
£6,500
ca. US$8,333
Auction archive: Lot number 38

Readings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on the use of this form of notation, manuscript on paper [Byzantium, fifteenth or sixteenth century]

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,564 - US$3,846
Price realised:
£6,500
ca. US$8,333
Beschreibung:

Readings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on the use of this form of notation, decorated manuscript on paper [Byzantium, fifteenth or sixteenth century] 222 leaves (plus 2 thin paper endleaves at front and one at back), wanting a few single leaves throughout (stubs often revealing original position), single column of 10 lines of hairline thin Greek minuscule with accompanying musical notation in broad dark penstrokes, additional great signs (megala semaia) and martyria in thin red penstrokes, rubrics in Greek in faded red, some sections crossed out by original user, capitals infilled with large red dots, some red initials with floral sprays in margin, significant openings with cascading red floral sprays in margin, major texts opening with ornamental penwork headbands touched in diluted ink wash, spots, stains, some small worm damage and discolouration to first leaf, else in good condition, 140 by 95mm.; early binding of plain pasteboards (perhaps remnant of a parchment covered binding, now much affected on outer surfaces from worm damage), exposed spine varnished at some point, solid in binding This volume contains the readings for the liturgy for the Eastern liturgical calendar in Greek, glossed throughout with their appropriate Kalophonic musical notation, with the additional great signs (megala semaia) in thin red penstrokes. This form of musical notation was the norm in Byzantium from the mid-twelfth century until the beginning of the modern period. Unlike Western notation, Byzantine music does not employ a stave to show the relative position of the notes on a set grade, but places them in relative position to those that precede it, indicating whether the note is higher or lower than that before (like Western neumes). The fixed pitch is established by the insertion of special signs, the martyria, to indicate this (like the use of a Western clef). The first six leaves here contain some brief description of the various uses of such symbols. Such manuscripts are rare to the market.

Auction archive: Lot number 38
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Readings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on the use of this form of notation, decorated manuscript on paper [Byzantium, fifteenth or sixteenth century] 222 leaves (plus 2 thin paper endleaves at front and one at back), wanting a few single leaves throughout (stubs often revealing original position), single column of 10 lines of hairline thin Greek minuscule with accompanying musical notation in broad dark penstrokes, additional great signs (megala semaia) and martyria in thin red penstrokes, rubrics in Greek in faded red, some sections crossed out by original user, capitals infilled with large red dots, some red initials with floral sprays in margin, significant openings with cascading red floral sprays in margin, major texts opening with ornamental penwork headbands touched in diluted ink wash, spots, stains, some small worm damage and discolouration to first leaf, else in good condition, 140 by 95mm.; early binding of plain pasteboards (perhaps remnant of a parchment covered binding, now much affected on outer surfaces from worm damage), exposed spine varnished at some point, solid in binding This volume contains the readings for the liturgy for the Eastern liturgical calendar in Greek, glossed throughout with their appropriate Kalophonic musical notation, with the additional great signs (megala semaia) in thin red penstrokes. This form of musical notation was the norm in Byzantium from the mid-twelfth century until the beginning of the modern period. Unlike Western notation, Byzantine music does not employ a stave to show the relative position of the notes on a set grade, but places them in relative position to those that precede it, indicating whether the note is higher or lower than that before (like Western neumes). The fixed pitch is established by the insertion of special signs, the martyria, to indicate this (like the use of a Western clef). The first six leaves here contain some brief description of the various uses of such symbols. Such manuscripts are rare to the market.

Auction archive: Lot number 38
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2018
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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