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