Grottaferrata, Biblioteca statale del Monumento nazionale di Grottaferrata, MS Ε. γ. II

Codex Cryptensi Facsimile Edition

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The Codex Cryptesi, named after the area in central Italy where it was made, is a rare survival of a Heirmologion, a book of hymns for use in the Christian liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church classified according to their melodies. The scribe Theophylactus created it at the monastery of Santa Maria at Grottaferrata and dated it 1281. Each hymn is represented by the text of its first stanza with the melody above in Middle Byzantine (round) notation, in signs representing the shape but not the exact intervals or pitches of the melodies. It opens with a decorated headpiece.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Codex Cryptensi": Hirmologium e Codice Cryptensi Ε.γ.II facsimile edition, published by Libreria dello Stato, 1950

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Manuscript book description compiled by Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.
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Hirmologium e Codice Cryptensi Ε.γ.II

Rome: Libreria dello Stato, 1950

  • Limited Edition: 500 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Codex Cryptensi: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Binding

Gold-tooled parchment.

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