Dragan Menaion
late 13th c.
A festal menaion with musical notation, one of the earliest sources for Bulgarian chant.
The object
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Why it matters
A festal menaion with musical notation, and with the Radomir Psalter one of the most important thirteenth-century books connected with Zograf. The notation is what makes it exceptional: most surviving manuscripts preserve what was said in the liturgy, and this one preserves how it was sung.
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Description
- Date
- late 13th c.
- Held at
- Zograf Monastery, Mount Athos