Several representative musical manuscripts in Byzantine and psaltic notation in the Rare books section at Central University Library in Iasi

摘要

Within the Rare books section of the Central University Library Mihai Eminescu (BCUME) of Iaşi, there are around 70 musical manuscripts in psaltic and in Byzantine neumatic notation written between the 10~(th) to 20th centuries. They are an important musical documentary resource as they illustrate almost all the stages of Byzantine notation: ecphonetic, medio-Byzantine, neo-Byzantine and Chrysantic. The present paper aims at briefly presenting the basic features of the above mentioned notations, as they can be seen in four valuable manuscripts at the BCUME: Ms. 160, call number IV 39 "Lectionarul evanghelic of Iaşi / The Iaşi Gospel Lectionary"- 9th - 1 lth century, Ms. IV 34 "Stikhirarion" - 13th century, Ms. I 26 "Anthologion of Iasi", 1545, and Ms. III 87, ,,Stikhirarion or Doxastarion" by Petru Lampadarie translated by Ghelasie Basarabeanu in 1840.