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Hymns and Stichera

Ὕμνοι καὶ στιχηρά · Kassia (Kassiane) · c. 810 - after 843 (9th c.) · liturgy

Greek · domain: hymnography · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The Greek texts are published only in Greek-only editions: 'Thirteen hymns' (Hildegard Publishing, 2000; contents: five hymns to St Christina, hymns to Pelagia, the fallen woman, 'Augustus, the monarch', Peter and Paul, Isaiah, the five-stringed lute, 'Above the teachings of the Greeks', 'Edessa rejoices') and 'Six [i.e. five] stichera' (Hildegard, 1996), both language 'grc': https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990086014000203941. HOLLIS Primo 'Kassia hymns translated English' returns 0 records; 'Kassia hymns' returns scores, a recording, and Kurt Sherry, Kassia the Nun in Context (Gorgias, 2011), whose only translated texts are in 'Appendix 1: Kassia's poems on monasticism' - a handful, not the corpus (checked 2026-11-13). The Lenten Triodion renders her best-known sticheron in the Holy Wednesday service.

No open-access Greek e-text was located: the Hildegard volumes are print scores/texts. The corpus is small (13 hymns in the 2000 edition plus the stichera), which makes a complete English translation a realistic short project; at present there is no such translation, and Sherry's appendix covers only the monastic poems.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Kassia the Nun in Context: The Religious Thought of a Ninth-Century Byzantine Monastic (Appendix 1) · Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 14 · Kurt Sherry · 2011

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). No Migne/PG home for hymnography. The 1876 Triodion gives the Greek text with the manuscript-style attribution rubric, but its OCR is only 21% function-word correct; full-resolution page images would need tesseract -l grc re-OCR (the copy's own /page/ images are 5100x6601 for the leaves sampled). The LOC Sinai Triodion is a genuine Lenten-Triodion witness and therefore a witness of the hymn, but is graded 'uncertain' because its contents were not read. The Hildegard editions (1996, 2000) of the 13 hymns / 5 stichera are in copyright and unscanned; Kassia's Menaion hymns (St Christina, Pelagia) are not in the Triodion and were not pursued.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Τριώδιον κατανυκτικόν (1876), Greek Lenten Triodion
internet-archive · triodion-katanyktikon-periechon-hapasan
pdf—public-domainpoorTriōdion_katanyktikon_periechon_hapasan_djvu.txt HTTP 200 (3.1 MB): line 56949 rubric 'Ποίημα Κασσιανῆς Μοναχῆς' immediately followed by the idiomelon 'Ἡ ἐν πολλαῖς ἁμαρτίαις περιπεσοῦσα ψυχή' (Holy Wednesday); 59 'ἁμαρ…
Greek Manuscripts 746. Triodion (St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai; microfilm 501…
loc · 00271075650-ms
iiif—unknownnoneLOC JSON https://www.loc.gov/collections/manuscripts-in-st-catherines-monastery-mount-sinai/?q=triodion&fo=json returned 35 items; the first is 'Greek Manuscripts 746. Triodion.' (id 00271075650-ms). Item JSON: online_f…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Kassia Hymns and Stichera — 3 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Thirteen hymns
Kassianē, approximately 810- · 2000 · grc
Kassianē, approximately 810-. "Thirteen hymns." Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Pub. Co., c2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990086014000203941
Six [i.e. five] stichera
Kassianē, approximately 810- · 1996 · grc
Kassianē, approximately 810-. "Six [i.e. five] stichera." Bryn Mawr, PA : Hildegard Pub. Co., c1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990056656740203941
Five chants
Kassianē, approximately 810- · 1998? · grc
Kassianē, approximately 810-. "Five chants." [Bryn Mawr, PA] : Hildegard Pub. Co., [1998?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990080995750203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Hymns and Stichera” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-kassia-hymni