Ο ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΟΣ ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΕΦΕΣΙΟΣ (†1840) ΚΑΙ Η «ΧΑΡΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ» Ή «ΧΑΡΤΟΤΥΠΙΑ» ΤΟΥ

Abstract

Petros Manouil Efesios was a gifted Greek musician, composer and music teacher of the early 19th century and a pioneer publisher of Greek ec­clesiastical music books, working in Bucharest. He was also the inventor of an original alphabetic notation system for Greek ecclesiastical music. At the beginning of the last decade of his life, in order to meet mainly the specific needs of his students in music books, he conceived the idea of print on demand and, long before the mimeograph was invented, he came up with a printing technique based on the use of stencils, which he called «Chartography» in 1830 and «Chartotypy» in 1832. In the present study the physical characteristics of the books he printed with this technique are examined and interpreted, in order to explain how the stencils were made and how the printing was done.