Beta

Ra 14

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatinus gr. 203. No diktyon: 65935.
s. XI | Parchment, 304 ff., 380 × 290 mm |  Minuscule. | Provenance: Heidelberg, Bibliotheca Palatina. Seized in 1622, and since 1623 part of the Vatican Library in Rome.
Catena in Octateuchum. | Catena in Octateuchum (CPG C2, Typus III Karo-Lietzmann). End from Exod. 40:22 on is missing. In some places the lemma was written twice (cf. Wevers, Genesis, 13): Gen 8:21; 9:6; 16:11; 24:3; 25:4; 25:22–23; 48:15; 49:3–4; 49:8. | Collation: HoP; Göttingen LXX
Content
1r–22rLetter of Aristeas CAVT 273
22v–23rTheodoret of Cyrrhus, Quaestiones in Octateuchum CPG 6200
23v–304vGen. and Ex. with Catena CPG C2
Bibliography
Anderson, J.: The Creation of the Illustrated Octateuch, Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz (SFCB; Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven B52), Wiesbaden 2022. 
Maniaci, M.: „At the End of the Line: Text Continuity and the Division of Words in Byzantine Manuscripts“, Trends in Statistical Codicology, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 19, Berlin et al. 2021, 599–659, 653, n. 122. 
Petit, F.: La chaîne sur la Genèse. Édition intégrale. I. Chapitres 1 à 3 (Traditio exegetica graeca 1), Leuven 1991, xxxiii.
Catalogues
Karo, G./ Lietzmann, H.: Catenarum Graecarum Catalogus, Göttingen 1902, 13.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 243. 
Stevenson, H. M.: Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Rome 1885, 101–102. 
Editions
Wevers, J.W. (ed.): Genesis (Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum I), Göttingen 1974, 13.
Wevers, J.W./ Quast, U. (eds.): Exodus (Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum II/1), Göttingen 1991, 8.
Online sources