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The anthologion Athos Lavra E-108: A Greek-Slavonic liturgical manuscript
The anthologion Athos Lavra E-108: A Greek-Slavonic liturgical manuscript

Author(s): Gerda Wolfram
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Social history, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: manuscript Athos Lavra E–108; anthologion; Greek; Slavonic; great signs; kalophonia;

Summary/Abstract: The codex Athos Lavra E–108 is a musical liturgical manuscript from the end of the 14th century. The change of the liturgical rite in the course of the 13th century was an important impulse for the development of the kalophonic style of Byzantine music. All genres of chant underwent a great change. Lavra E–108 contains both chants with Greek text and with Slavonic text. Various scribes contributed to this manuscript. It seems that the codex was used in a Greek-Slavonic congregation, in a Greek sphere of influence.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 25-38
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English