Grading is Visual Only

Schola Melurgica Della Badia di Grottaferrata

Padre Lorenzo Tardo

Musica Sacra ~ Byzantine Chants

5x78

Records - EX

I do have the "album" but no boards or spine have survived, just pages....

The Abbey of Grottaferrata, which is located twelve miles into the hills above Rome, was founded by Saint Nilus the Younger in 1004, fifty years before the schism of the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Although Catholic, the Greek Abbey’s liturgy and culture remained that of the Greek Byzantine rite from its founding to the present. As a monk of the abbey, Father Lorenzo became a pioneer in the transcription, publication, and interpretation of ancient Byzantine liturgical music, including music preserved in two important chant manuscripts at the abbey.

The five 78 RPM shellac discs (RDX 556 to 560) that the Schola Melurgica had recorded in 1943 for the Cetra label. The discs include sixteen titles, translated into Italian for the record labels, although the chants are sung in medieval Greek. Most of the chants date from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.

I have been buying and selling records for the past few years.  While I have become more knowledgeable, my grading is still subjective to your own eye and system.  All grading is visual only.  I am basing my grading on my knowledge of other collectibles I have dealt with in the past and what I have learned about records (both LP and 78's)

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Each LP will come with a poly outer sleeve and and inner paper sleeve.  I will include the original inner sleeve if it is available, if not it will be a plain white inner sleeve.

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Packing - 

78's, I pack them between stiff cardboard (no more than 10 per bundle), and then inside fill in an oversized box (14x14x6).  They are fragile and I want them to travel as safely as possible.

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