News - October 2025

Thanks to consent from the relevant persons and institutions, the MMB digital library has been enriched with two new items:

Vol. 3. HIRMOLOGIUM CRYPTENSE (Grottaferrata, Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Grottaferrata, Epsilon.gamma.II, AD 1281), in two parts, edited by Lorenzo Tardo, Rome: La Libreria dello Stato 1950-1951
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and

Vol. 11. STICHERARIUM AMBROSIANUM (Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, ms. A 139 sup., AD 1341), in two parts, edited by Lidia Perria & Jørgen Raasted, Copenhagen: Munksgaard 1992
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The Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae is grateful for these permissions, since access to such documents is of importance for students of two main genres of Byzantine chant: the Heirmologion and the Sticherarion.

With these additions, reference material for the study of any other musical manuscript of these two types is made available.

For the Heirmologion, see also

CIMAGL 1 (1969), 1-12 Jørgen Raasted, ‘Observations on the Manuscript Tradition of Byzantine Music, I: A List of Heirmos Call-Numbers, based on Eustratiades‘s Edition of the Heirmologion’ Link

For the Sticherarion, see also

CIMAGL 74 (2003), 3-20 Christian Troelsgaard, ‘A List of Sticheron Call-Numbers of the Standard Abridged Version of the Sticherarion. Part I (The Cycle of the Twelve Months)’ Link