Beta
Ra 106
Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Cl. II. 187 I + 187 II + 188 II. No diktyon: 15673.
GA Number: 582.
s. XI, s. XIV
XI (187 II, ff. 187v–188v), XIV
| Paper (187 I; 188 II; 187 II, ff. 001–187 (?); 189r–214); Parchment (187 II, ff. 187v–188v)
from an 11th century Latin manuscript, cf. Martini, Catalogo, p. 351, 211 + 214 + 114 ff.
187 I: 211 ff.; 187 II: 214 ff.; 188 II: 114 ff., 400 × 310
mm,
1 col., 39 lines per page.
| Minuscule (Later Palaeologian Hands).
| Scribe:
Ξένος Νικόδημος (s. XV) 187 I, ff. 1–211v; 187 II, ff. 1–187r; 188 II, ff. 1r–114v. VGH 1294, PLP 20889; Martini, Catalogo, 351.
| Provenance: The manuscript was offered to the convento dei PP. Carmelitani Scalzi di S. Paolo in Ferrara by Cardinal Bessarion in 1438.
Cf. Martini, Catalogo, 353; Rahlfs, Verzeichnis, 60
| Owners:
Γεώργιος Σιμονάκι (s. XIV)
cf. f. 214v: Γεώργιος Σιμονάκι μαθιτὴς τοῦ Ἡὁάννη τοῦ Καβουρά. On Simonaki, see PLP 25352; On Ἰωάννης Καβουρᾶς (s. XIV), see PLP 10105–10106,
Βησσαρίων
RGK I, nr. 41. RGK II, nr. 61. RGK III, nr. 77.
Complete Bible.
| The manuscript is divided into three volumes. Psalter and Odes have been added by a second scribe, Γεώργιος Σιμονάκι. The titles and initial letters are rubricated. There are some marginal glosses in Latin of a later hand. Corrections and additions in Greek are written in the margins by a second hand.
| Text-type: non-Lucianic text.
| Content | |
| 187 I, ff. 1–178r | Oct, Reg I-IV, Par I-II |
| 187 I, ff. 178v–195v | Esdr I-II |
| 187 I, ff. 196r–200r | Tob |
| 187 I, ff. 200v–206v | Idt |
| 187 I, ff. 207r–211v | Est |
| I87 II, ff. 1r–12r | Iob |
| 187 II, ff. 12v–22v | Prov |
| 187 II, ff. 23r–26r | Eccl |
| 187 II, ff. 26v–28r | Cant |
| 187 II, ff. 28v–34r | Sap |
| 187 II, ff. 34v–51v | Sir |
| 187 II, ff. 52r–139r | IV proph |
| 187 II, ff. 139v–160v | XII proph |
| 187 II, ff. 161r–187r | Mac I-II |
| 187 II, ff. 187v–188v | Ez 14:23–17:10 in Latin |
| 187 II, ff. 189r–214 | Ps.Od. |
| 188 II, ff. 1r–114v | NT |
Bibliography
Hoskier, H.: Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collations of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen's Third Edition, Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. A Complete Conspectus of All Authorities, vol. I, London 1929, 308–313.
Labowsky, L.: Bessarion’s library and the Biblioteca Marciana, Roma 1979 (Sussidi eruditi, 31).
Catalogues
Gregory, G. R.: Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, vols. I–III, Leipzig 1900–1909, I, 205; III, 205, 281, 305, 321, 1108.
Martini, E.: Catalogo dei manoscritti esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane, vol. I, part. II, Milano 1896, 351–352 (187 I, II–188 II).
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 59–61.
Online Sources
NTVMR
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