21.16 Anthologia
1816
Panteleimon Monastery, Cod. 906
Paper, 20.5 x 14.5 cm, ff. 368
Scribe: Gregorios, lampadarios-protopsaltis
An important codex, since it is by the hand of Gregorios, a lampadarios of the Great Church and one of the teachers and expositors of the New Method, and was commenced in the year immediately preceding the Constantinopolitan reform of 1814. The form of notation used is of an expository type. The codex includes the expositions of Petros Peloponnesios and Petros Byzantios, with a clear, accurate rendering of the compositions. Gregorios was a student of Petros Byzantios. The codex is moth-eaten, though the written surface has not been damaged. Fols. 138-364 were inscribed by Gregorios's student, the deacon Theokletos Peloponnesios, in a hand which is an amazing imitation of Gregorios's own. On fol. 10r there is a beautiful colour miniature of the prophet-king David.