Old Believer songbook for the Russian Orthodox church year and various feast days :
manuscript
Description
- Language(s)
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Church Slavic
- Published
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Russia, between 1700 and 1900?
- Summary
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Composite manuscript of vocal music in kriuki notation from different periods and Old-Believer traditions, primarily from the White Sea area, written in at least 7 different hands, from the 18th to the late 19th or early 20th century, with instructions on the notation system and rules of church singing as well as historical information on znamenny chant excerpted from old Russian chronicles and other early texts; includes music and order of the funeral service, Easter canon, sticheron of Leo VI the Wise, two iterations of chants and hymns for the calendar cycle and feasts
- Note
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Pre-Revolutionary Books (S20)
Some white laid paper pages have been repaired and missing words re-written; the reverse of a circular patching at pages 311-312 bears partial signature [Brushkovskīĭ?] from separate document used for the repair
Page numbering written in upper margins in pencil; earlier numbering in ink on white laid paper does not follow same order
Pages on machine-made paper have signatures in Church Slavic in bottom margins
Some pages on white laid paper are foliated
Pages 1-12, 313-362 are on blue laid paper and are likely the oldest part of the manuscript
Original manuscript likely 18th century; about half of it now contains replacement leaves on machine-made paper with some pages left blank
Text and notation in black, brown and red ink, some decoration also in violet and red ink
Includes introductory material, with diagram, explaining the notation system
Production dates based on analysis of paper and handwriting
Title devised by cataloger
Also available via the World Wide Web.
- Physical Description
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362 pages :
illustration ;
21 cm
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