PARHAM MS VI: Canticles and other Services, imperfect (Rahlfs 1091)
Scope & Content:
PARHAM MS VI: Canticles and other Services, imperfect (Rahlfs 1091). According to Rahlfs, this manuscript and Add MS 39587 (Parham MS V) were originally a single manuscript.
Ἀκολουθία ἱκετήριος εἰς τὴν ὑπεραγίαν θεοτόκον ἡ λεγομένη ἀκάθιστος: the Office of the Blessed Virgin sung on the Saturday of the fifth week fo Lent, in an arrangement differing considerably from modern service-books.
Στιχηρὰ κατανυκτικὰ εἰς τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν ἦχος α: a collection of miscellaneous stichera taken from various Offices, followed by some scribblings and two rough drawings on f 40v.
Binding fragments, from a single manuscript: Τροπάρια ψαλλόμενα τῆ κυριακῆ μετὰ τὸν ἄμωμον, a set of 11 troparia, ff 41r-42r, followed by Τροπάρια ψαλλόμενα τῶ Σαββάτω μετὰ τὸν ἄμωμον, a set of eight troparia, ff 42v-43v.
A fragment beginning with the heading κοντάκιον τῆς θεοτόκου. ἦχος πλ β', ff 44r-v, followed by an addition in a later (14th-century?) hand, Λευιτικου τὸ ἀνάγνωσμα (Leviticus 26:3-33), ff 44v-46v.
Fragment from a modern (18th century?) paper manuscript of the Acathistos Office, from the στιχηρόν Τὸ ἀπ' αἰῶνος Μυστήριον to the Εὐαγγελίζεται ὁ Γαβριήλ, here followed by τοῦ σταυροῦ σου ὁ τύπος νῦν κ.τ.λ, ff 47r-48v. Followed by some scribblings and ownership notes, ff 49r-v.
