Beta
Ra 1039
Kraków, Jagiellonian Library, Berolinensis graec. qu. 58. No diktyon: 1039.
s. X-XI
s. XII, according to de Boor and Rahlfs
| Parchment, 534 ff., 225 × 174
mm Original byzantine binding in decorated dark brown leather with clasps (text area: 100 x 100 mm
145 × 100 (ff. 1r–19r): Ruling Type: 20C1; letters hanging from the ruling line; 100 × 100 (ff. 20r–533v): Unrecognized Ruling Type. Letters hanging from the ruling line; Line spacing: 1cm),
1 col., var. lines per page
27/33 lines per page: ff. 1r–19v; 10/12 lines per page: ff. 20r–533v.
|
Majuscule (Auszeichnungsmajuskel) Title; Minuscule (Bouletée) Text.
| Provenance: “Ex Bibl. Regia Berolin.” (ff. 1r, 533r). The manuscript comes from a Greek island and was bought in Paris in 1880.
cf. de Boor
Catena in Psalmos et Odas.
| Defective at its beginning. There are marginal notes from different hands. Some leaves have suffered extensive damage in their margins (i.e. ff. 317, 523, 534). The codex was restored using fragments from other Greek manuscripts (i.e. ff. 220, 227r). Indication of the quires from α′ to ξη′. Ff. 112v-113r, 522v-523, 531r-534v: the comment is lacking.
| Text-type: L.
Bibliography
Catalogues
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 29.
Studemund, W./Cohn, L./de Boor, C.: Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin. Vol. I et II, Codices ex bibliotheca Meermanniana Phillippici graeci nunc Berolinenses, I–II, Die Handschriften–Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin 1890, 1897, Vol. II (1897), 207 (no. 360).
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