Beta

Ra 1062

London, British Library, Add. 47674 (Olim: Holkham Hall, Library of the Earl of Leicester, 22). No diktyon: 39238.
s. XIII/1 | Parchment, 142 ff., 280 × 200 mm, 2 col.  One column in Greek and another in Latin., 32 lines per page. |  Minuscule (The Greek text is written in an archaizing hand and the Latin one in Gothic minuscule). | Provenance: France, Paris (?).  see Gamba (2016: 315)Owners: Pietro da Montagnana (d. 1476)  Paduan humanist, Thomas Coke (1697-1759) purchased the manuscript in 1717 from the monastery of San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua.
Psalms and Odes with parallel Latin text (illuminated). | According to Gamba (2016: 315), the manuscript was produced in Paris around the year 1230, and it was illustrated by the artist who made the illustrations of the Albenga Psalter. Rahlfs instead dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The codex is beautifully decorated with red and blue initials, colourful borders and several historiated initials, which mostly depict scenes of David’s life. The Greek text contains many misspellings, which indicate that the anonymous scribe did not know well Greek. There are several marginal annotations and corrections by Pietro da Montagnana.Text-type: L.
Content
Ir–1r Blank
1v Fragment by Nicholas of Lyra, tit.: “Nicolaus de Lyra de provintia (sic.) franciae de ordine minorum in commentariis suis super psalmos loquitur in hunc modum”
2r–130v Ps 1-150
131r–131v Ode 11
131v–132r Ode 3
132r–133v Ode 1
133v–134v Ode 4
134v–137r Ode 2
137v–138r Ode 8:57-88. des.: “Εὐλογοῦμεν πατέρα καὶ υἱὸν σὺν ἁγίω πνεύματι. ὑμνοῦμεν καὶ ὑπερυψοῦμεν αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας:. Εὐλογημένος εἰ κύριε ἐν τῶ στερεώματι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. καὶ ὑπερύμνειτος καὶ δεδοξασμένος καὶ ὑπερυψούμενος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας”
138r–139r Ode 7
139r Ode 9:46-55
139r–139v Ode 13
139v Ode 14
139v–140r The Nicean Creed
140v Ps 151 by a later later hand
141r Hebrew alphabet
141v–142r Blank
142v Latin note dated to 1478, which states that Pietro da Montagnana donated this manuscript to the monastery of S. Giovanni di Verdara in Padua
Bibliography
Gamba, E.,: Pietro da Montagnana: La vita, gli studi, la biblioteca di un uomo trilinguis, P.h.D thesis, Padova 2016, 315–317. 
Catalogues
Pattie, T. S. and S. Mckendrick: The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, vol. I, London 1999, 264.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 79. 
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