Musical Manuscripts from Stavropoleos Monastery (Bucharest, Romania)

[Dimitri]

For our English speaking members I post a link here to the collection of rare manuscripts from Holy Monastery Stavropoleos in Bucharest, Romania. The mss are published on Psaltologion [here] with the permission of the monastery and were kindly offered by the member of the forum, Vladimir. Our sincere thanks to Vladimir and the nuns of Stavropoleos Monastery for their contribution to the psaltic community. For those who may not know, the monastery is doing a lot of work on Byzantine Music. I transfer from their site:

Byzantine music is a constant preoccupation of the Stavropoleos foundation. The one hundred books and manuscripts on this subject form the most important collection of this kind in Romania to belong to a foundation or private individual. Most of the titles have come from the libraries of two Romanian Byzantinologists, Archdeacon Prof. Dr. Sebastian Barbu Bucur and Titus Moisescu. We are grateful to these two prominent scholars, who have often lent us their support as part of our initiatives to promote Byzantine music. In the Stavropoleos Library can be found almost all the most important titles in Romanian concerning church vocal music, from the first publications of Macarie the Hieromonk in 1823, through nineteenth century works on the subject by Anton Pann and Dimitrie Suceveanu, to Ion Popescu-Pasarea and Victor Ojog. Similarly, there are books in Greek on church vocal music, including works by Theodor Phokaeos and Petre Efesiu, who was the first in the Orthodox world to print church vocal music, in Bucharest in 1820. As well as printed books, there are Greek and Romanian manuscripts, two of which date from the eighteenth century, written in the old Cucuzelian notation, and one Slavonic manuscript, in “krjuki” notation.

Please do drop a line of thanks to the monastery's site as a little sign of gratitude for their contribution.