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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