Theodorus and Theophanes
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Theodorus and Theophanes, called the Grapti, are remembered as proponents of the veneration of icons during the second Iconoclastic controversy. They were brothers and natives of Jerusalem.
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Theodorus's icon
Athonite Fresco of Theophanes and Theodoros
Octoechos (liturgy)
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The Octoechos book is a liturgical book containing a repertoire of hymns ordered in eight parts according to eight echoi. Originally created in the Monastery of Stoudios during the 9th century as a hy
Theodorus and Theophanes
…was a Byzantine monk and hymnographer. Next to Joseph the Hymnographer, Theophanes is the major contributor to the Orthodox liturgical book called the Parakletike. Theophanes was consecrated as Metropolitan of Nicaea by Patriarch Methodius in 842 and administered it until his death in 845. Theophanes wrote a large…
Papyrus fragment of a 6th-century tropologion found in Egypt, marked in red are the modal signature and some early ekphonetic signs of the following theotokion ("another one") which is composed in a melos of echos plagios devteros (D-Bk P. 21319)
Melkite Heirmologion, written in Syriac language, using Sertâ book script at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai (11th century) Oslo, Schøyen Collection, Ms. 577.
Georgian Iadgari (tropologion, 10th century)
The first printed Octoechos (Schweipolt Fiol, Kraków 1491)