Canons and Kontakia
Egypt
Sinai, Mt.
Monastery of St. Catherine
Sin.Slav.12/N
12/N
New Collection
Tarnanidis 1988: 127-133
61 ff.
bombycine
16-17 ll./p. on ff. 1-52; 20-22 ll./p. on ff. 54-61
Cyrillic
The beginning and some other folia of the MS are missing; the codex has two parts copied by one and the same scribe, which parts were bound together by the second scribe
The Anonymous scribe wrote the two main parts of the MS, the second scribe, who filled in the gap between the two parts, might be identified with hieromonk Ioan or his collaborator Iakov (see Cernić 1982) Cyrillic majuscule
Serbian orthography
13th-14th c.,
Contains Akathistos hymn to Theotokos, the Service for Holy Communion, and kontakia for the saints throughout the year, prokimena for all the modes, hirmoi for the Canon for the second plagal mode