• Kratēmatarion

Collections:

• Digitized Manuscripts
• Ancient and Modern Greek Collections at PUL
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Hellenica

Date:

• 1400-1499

Language:

• Greek, Modern (1453-)

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

Description:

• 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.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9977179833506421

Call number:

• Princeton MS. 209
• Electronic Resource

Extent:

• 87 leaves : paper ; 215 x 150 (150 x 95) mm bound to 220 x 153 mm

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Publisher:

• [between 1400 and 1499]

Title sort:

• Kratēmatarion.

Binding note:

• Bound in the Preservation office, 2009.

Created:

• 1400-01-01T00:00:00Z/1499-12-31T23:59:59Z

Location:

• HSVM Princeton MS. 209
• HSVM Electronic Resource
• ELF1 Princeton MS. 209
• ELF1 Electronic Resource

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/5m60qw77s

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Type:

• Hymns
• Manuscripts

Contributor:

• Glykys, Iōannēs.
• Kladas, Iōannēs, ho Lampadarios, 14th cent
• Klovas, Nikolaos
• Koukouzelēs, Iōannēs.

Text language:

• In Byzantine neumes.

Source acquisition:

• Purchase: by Kenneth and Brooks E. Levy in Greece. AM 2009-32.

Available online:

• Digital content

Abstract:

• 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.