Beta

Ra 1010

Mt. Athos, Βατοπαιδίου, 761 (olim 609). No diktyon: 18905.
Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, W.530.b. No diktyon: 8853.
DBBE ID: 16613.
a. 1087/88; s. XVI/1  a. 1087/88: ff. 1-230; s. XVI/1: ff. 231-237 | Parchment (ff. 1–230); Paper (ff. 231–237), 230 ff.  numbered 1–199, 206–237, 118 × 97 mm, 1 col., 19 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Perlschrift)  ff. 1-230. | Provenance: Constantinople. | Owner: Μακάριος Κορίνθου μητροπολίτης Θεσσαλονίκης (1465–1546)  f. Ir, monogram.
Psalms and Odes. | The Psalter can be dated on the basis of the paschal table on ff. 3r–4v, which is original to the manuscript and begins with the year 6596 (=AD 1087/88). Folia 200–205 with the text of Ps 144:8 through Ps 151:6a are now missing. The entries on ff. 1r–v and 2v were added in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The paper f. 231 is a replacement for a lost parchment leaf.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–v epigrams
2r blank
2v ownership notes
3r–4v paschal table
5r–10r prefaces
10v blank
11r–14v miniatures
15r–206r Ps 1–151
206v miniature
207r–229r Odes 1–9, 11–14
229r–231r liturgica
231v–233r miniatures
233v blank
234r–236v prayers
237r–v blank
Bibliography
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD Plovdiv 2014, 115, 131–132, 138–139, 172, 224. 
Weitzmann, K., “The Psalter Vatopedi 761: Its Place in the Aristocratic Psalter Recension”, in: Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 10 (1947), 20–51.
Catalogues
Eustratiades, S., monk Arkadios, Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the Library of the Monastery of Vatopedi on Mt. Athos, Cambridge MA 1924, 150.
Parpulov, G., “A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum.” in: Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004), 71–189, 110–111.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, p. 9, 9.