Pinakes | Πίνακες

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[= Κῆπος ἀειθαλής. Studi in ricordo di Augusta Acconcia Longo, I, a cura di Francesco D’AIUTO, Santo LUCA, Andrea LUZZI] The cataloguing project «Codices hymnographici Byzantini antiquiores» has recently brought to light a heirmos with archaic Coislin musical notation. This short hymn is preserved in the manuscript Moscow, State Historical Museum, Synod. gr. 438 (299 Vlad.), which is an interesting Theotokariontranscribed by the monk John for the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos in A.D. 1021/1022. Such a discovery within a dated manuscript represents a precious witness to the use of Palaeobyzantine musical notation from a poorly documented period in the history of Byzantine music. The purpose of the present paper is to illustrate the distinctive features of this archaic musical notation through a comparison with the melodic versions of the same heirmos transmitted in nine manuscripts of the Heirmologion from the 10th century onwards. Their musical notations contribute to a clearer understanding and a more reliable interpretation of the older neumatic writing. In an Appendix, there follow summary descriptions, with paleographical observations, of some Heirmologia with musical notation from the 10th-13th centuries.