Beta

Ra 1047

El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Υ. II. 14 (Andrés 269) (olim V. Ζ. 11; III. Η. 14). No diktyon: 15482.
s. XI | Parchment, 272 ff., 239 × 203 mm, 1 col.  ff. 1–55; ff. 56–272 (with marginal commentary), linn. var. lines per page  ff. 56–272. |  Minuscule.
Psalms and Odes. | This manuscript consisting of two distinct parts: ff. 1–55 and ff. 56–272 (f. 212 was skipped in the foliation, so that f. 213 follows straight upon f. 211. There is no text missing). There are prognostic sentences added in the margin next to each psalm (e.g. f. 78r supra). The ornamented initial letters, the titles, and some passages of the text (e.g. f. 79r) were re-inked in the fifteenth century. The text on some pages (e.g. 17v, 58v, 70v) has been damaged by trimming. | Text-type: L.
Content
1r–52v catena on Ps 3-119 (beginning lost) without biblical text
52v–55v Prefaces
56r–252v Ps 1–150 with catena CPG C30
253r Ps 151
253r–v Ascetica, added s. XV
254r–272v Ode 1–6, 11–12, 7–8, 9:1 (end lost) with catena CPG C46
Bibliography
Dorival, G.: Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, III, Louvain 1992, 24–89 (5.i.A.2).
Dorival, G.: Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, V, Louvain 2018, 207–209.
Faulhaber, M.: “Die Katenenhandschriften der spanischen Bibliotheken”, Biblische Zeitschrift 1 (1903), 151–159, 246–255, 351–371 (354–356, 358–359). 
Floristán Imízcoz, J.: “El fondo Giustiniani de códices griegos en El Escorial”, in: R. Aguilar, L. Gil Fernandez, M. Martínez Pastor (eds), Corolla complutensis: in memoriam Josephi S. Lasso de la Vega, Madrid 1998, 569–577 (571–573). 
Catalogues
Andrés Martínez, G. de: Catálogo de los códices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial, II, Madrid 1965, 137–138 (cat. 269). 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 56.