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Late Byzantine notation

Lot 76
08.11.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 1 500
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 76 | Late Byzantine notation
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
Late Byzantine notation
Papadike, in Greek, decorated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Empire, ?Macedonia]
An 18th-century copy of the Papadike, the most concise introduction to the last phase of Byzantine notation.

160 x 110mm. v + 145 leaves, modern pencil foliation, sporadic earlier pagination, 18 lines, text block: c.110 x 75mm, headings, two- to four-line initials and papadic musical signs in red, else written and notated throughout in black ink, decorative headpieces in black and red, half-page diagram of the eight musical modes on f.6v, f.145 written in a later hand (occasional browning and marginal thumbing, else in excellent condition). Original binding of blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, metal clasps.

Provenance:
(1) 19th-century annotations suggest that the manuscript was in use in one of the religious houses in Macedonia: an inscription on f.6v reads ‘Pavougades and Jonas the priest’ [according to the classical scholar Professor Martin Litchfield West (1937-2015)].

(2) Carla Signorini, Venice; according to –

(3) Jeremy Griffiths, Oxford; from whom acquired July 1994.

(4) Schøyen Collection, MS 1897.

Content:
Papadike, a manual of musical instruction, citing works by composers of Greek church music including: Joannes Glykys (fl. late 13th century); Peter Danilo (15th century); Chrisaphos Tuneu (17th century); and Peter the Lampadarios a.k.a. Peter the Peloponnessian (c. 1730-1778). See E. Wellesz, A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography, 1961, pp.284-7).
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