Beta
Ra 101
Oxford, Christ Church, Wake gr. 61. No diktyon: 48583.
a. 1391
| Parchment; Paper (ff. 4, 5, 138, 140, 141, 165), 222 ff., 280 × 190
mm,
1 col., 19 lines per page.
|
Minuscule (Hodegon style).
| Scribe:
Ἰωάσαφ τῆς μονῆς τῶν Οδηγῶν
RGK I 208, II 287, III 344.
| Provenance: Constantinople, Hodegon Monastery.
| Owner:
According to Turyn (1980:145), the manuscript was kept during the 17th and the early 18th centuries in the area around Trebizond.
Psalms and Odes (illustrated).
| As the many hymns indicate, the manuscript was meant to serve liturgical purposes. Some of its folios have been lost and as a result its content is incomplete.
| Text-type: L.
Content | |
Upper cover (verso) | Note by a monk (17th c.) |
1 | Fragment of a paschal table added by a later hand. It refers to the years 1404–1410. |
1v | Miniature of David |
2r–6v | Ps 2:5b-Ps 8 |
6v–7v | Kathisma α´: trisagion, catanyctic troparia from the Triodion (inc. ὅτι τὸ πέλαγος πολὺ τῶν παραπτωμάτων μου, Σωτήρ) and a prayer. |
8r–13v | Ps 9:13b-Ps 16 |
13v–15v | Kathisma β´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Triodion (inc. Ἥμαρτον εἰς σέ, Σωτήρ, ὡς ὁ ἄσωτος υἱός) and a prayer. |
15v | Ps 17:1-4b |
16r–23v | Ps 17:18a-Ps 23 |
23v–25v | Kathisma γ´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Triodion (inc. Ἑσπερινὸν ὕμνον προσφέρομέν σοι, Χριστέ, μετὰ θυμιάματος καὶ ᾠδῶν πνευματικῶν) and a prayer. |
25v–30v | Ps 24-28:10a |
31r–33r | Ps 30:12c-Ps 31 |
33r–34v | Kathisma δ´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Triodion (inc. Ἤθελον δάκρυσιν ἐξαλεῖψαι τῶν ἐμῶν πταισμάτων, Κύριε) and a prayer. |
34v–44r | Ps 32-36 |
44r–45r | Trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Triodion (inc. Κύριε, ἁμαρτάνων οὐ παύομαι, φιλανθρωπίας ἀξιούμενος οὐ γινώσκω) and a prayer. |
45r–56v | Ps 37-45 |
56v–58v | Kathisma στ´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Octoechos (inc. ἐν τῆ φρικτῆ παρουσία σου, Χριστέ, μὴ ἀκούσωμεν) and a prayer. |
59r–68r | Ps 47:8-Ps 54 |
68r–69v | Kathisma ζ´: trisagion, stichera from the Triodion (inc. ὡς ὁ ἄσωτος υἱὸς ἦλθον κἀγὼ οἰκτίρμον) and a prayer. |
69v–78v | Ps 55-63 |
78v–80r | Kathisma η´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Triodion (inc. Σὲ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ δεσπότην ἄγγελοι ἀπαύστως ἀνυμνοῦσιν) and a prayer. |
80r–89r | Ps 64-69 |
89r–91r | Kathisma θ´: trisagion, catanyctic stichera from the Octoechos (inc. Εἰ ὁ δίκαιος μόλις σώζεται, ἐγὼ ποῦ φανοῦμαι ὁ ἁμαρτωλός) and a prayer. |
91r–99v | Ps 70-75:11a |
100r–100v | Ps 76:14a-21c |
100v–102r | Kathisma ι´: trisagion and catanyctic troparia. Part of the folio has been cut off. |
102v | Miniature depicting the Virgin Mary and the Monk Kaloeidas. |
103r | Miniature of Christ |
103v | Blank |
104r–115r | Ps 77-84 |
115r–117v | Kathisma ια´: trisagion and catanyctic troparia from the Parakletike (inc. παροικοῦσα ἐν τῆ γῆ ψυχῆ μου μετανόησον). |
117v–125v | Ps 85-90 |
125v–127r | Kathisma ιβ´: trisagion, catanyctic troparia from the Parakletike (inc. τὴν ταπεινὴν μου ψυχὴν ἐπίσκεψαι, Kύριε) and a prayer. |
127v–135v | Ps 91-100 |
135v–137r | Kathisma ιγ´: trisagion and catanyctic kathismata from the Triodion (inc. Κριτοῦ καθεζομένου καὶ ἀγγέλων ἐστώτων) and a prayer. |
137r–146r | Ps 101-104 |
146r–147v | Kathisma ιδ´: trisagion and catanyctic kathismata from the Triodion (inc. ἐννοῶ τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν φοβερὰν καὶ θρηνῶ μου τὰς πράξεις). |
147v–156v | Ps 105-108 |
157r–158v | Kathisma ιε´: trisagion, catanyctic kathismata from the Parakletike (inc. ἔχουσα ψυχή μου τὸ ἰατρεῖον τῆς μετανοίας, πρόσελθε δακρύουσα), prayer. |
158v–165v | Ps 109-117 |
166r–168r | Troparia from the Triodion (the beginning is missing) |
168r–179r | Ps 118 |
179r–181r | Kathisma ιστ´: trisagion and troparia (inc. Τὸν τάφον σου, Σωτήρ, ἐγγίζει ὁ καιρός). |
181r–188r | Ps 119-133 |
188r–189v | Kathisma ιη´: trisagion, kathismata dedicated to the cross (inc. ἐξηγόρασας ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῆς κατάρας τοῦ νόμου τῶ τιμίω σου αἵματι τῶ σταυρῶ προσηλωθείς) and a prayer. |
189v–199r | Ps 134-142 |
199r–200v | Kathisma ιθ´: trisagion, troparia (inc. Aἱ ἀνομίαι μου ψάμμον θαλάσσιον ὑπερνικήσασα τὴν ταπεινὴν μου ψυχή) and a prayer. |
201r–207v | Ps 143-150 |
208r–212r | Ode 2:4d-10 |
212r–213r | Ode 3 |
213r–215r | Ode 4 |
215r–216v | Ode 5 |
216v–217r | Ode 6 |
217r–219r | Ode 7 |
219r–221r | Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8 |
221r–222v | Ode 9 |
222v | Colophon in verses mentioning the name of the scribe DBBE |
Bibliography
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Pérez Martín, I., “The Escorial Akathistos: the Last Manuscript Illuminated in Constantinople” Italia medioevale e umanistica 52 (2011), 227–262, 246 (n. 62).
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Catalogues
Hutter, I., Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, vol. IV, Stuttgart 1993, 148–153.
Kitchin, G. W., Catalogus codicum MSS. in Bibliotheca Aedis Christii apud Oxonienses adservantur, Oxonii 1867, 26–27.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 175.
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