Beta

Ra 1008

Athens, National Library of Greece, 47.
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Gr. 264.
a. 975/6, XII, XV  a. 975/6: ff. 1–6 (Petrop.), ff. 1–6, 9–243 (Athen.), cf. paschal table (Petrop.: f. 1r); s. XII: ff. 243–245 (Athen.) prayer; s. XV: ff. 6v–8v (Athen.) miniatures | Parchment, 6+245 ff., 125 × 90 mm, 1 col., 18 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Perlschrift). | Owner: Monastery of Mar Saba, Jerusalem  f. 7v, ownership note, cf. Sakkelion, 8–9.
Psalms and Odes with miniatures. | Text-type: L.
Content
1r–4v (Petrop.) paschal tables
1r–6r (Athen.) prefaces Eusebius Caesariensis, Commentarii in Psalmos (CPG 3467). Argumentum Eusebii Pamphili (PG 23, cc. 65-68), Ejusdem Eusebii argumenta in Psalmos (PG 23, cc. 68-72)
9r–11v (Athen.) Ps 1:1-4:7
5r–6v (Petrop.) Ps 4:8-6:9
12r–213v (Athen.) Ps 6:9-151
214r–232r (Athen.) Ode 1-9
232v (Athen.) Ode 13
232v–235v (Athen.) Ode 11-12
235v–236v (Athen.) Ode 14
237v–243r (Athen.) liturgica
234r–245v (Athen.) prayer
Bibliography
Carr, A. W., Byzantine Illumination, 1150–1250: The Study of a Provincial Tradition, Chicago 1987, p. 190 (cat. 6).
Cutler, A., The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris 1984, pp. 19–20 (cat. 3).
Lake, K., Lake, S., Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, VI, Boston 1936, cat. 235. 
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–ca. 1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 110, 142. 
Catalogues
Delatte, A., Les manuscrits à miniatures et à ornements des Bibliothèques d’Athènes (Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège. 34), Liège–Paris 1926, 81–82 ((Athen.)). 
Granstrem, E. E., “Каталог греческих рукописей ленинградских хранилищ. Вып. 2: Рукописи X в.”, in Византийский временник 18 (1961), 254–274, 255 (cat. 117). 
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 6. 
Sakkelion, A., Κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἐθνικῆς Βιβλιοθήκης τῆς Ἑλλάδος, Athens 1892, 8–9.