Beta

Ra 1070

Jerusalem, Patriarchal Library, Monastery of Timiou Staurou 96. No diktyon: 35992.
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ф. 906, Греч. 263 (Гранстрем 79). No diktyon: 57335.
s. IX | Parchment, 182 + 6 ff.  in addition, twelve lost folia can be reconstructed, 180 × 140 mm, 1 col., 21 lines per page. |  Majuscule (inclined pointed majuscule)  biblical text; Majuscule (upright pointed majuscule)  marginal commentary. | Provenance: Monastery of St. Sabas. The St. Petersburg part of the manuscript originates from the collection of Porphyrius Uspensky (Порфирий Успенский).
Psalms with scholia (incomplete). | Psalms with scholia written in majuscule script, with a few notes in minuscule script added by a later hand. Each stichos begins with an initial, rubricated and adorned with gold. The codex is nowadays incomplete: the beginning up to Ps 20:9b is missing, as is the final portion from Ps 148:7a onwards. The section now located in St Petersburg was originally situated between folios 72 & 73. Within the main body of the manuscript, ten leaves are missing between folios 161 & 162, resulting in the loss of Ps 118:100a–123:6a, and two leaves are missing between folios 168 & 169, leading to the loss of Ps 134:16a–135:11b. The initial of each psalm is enlarged, and the initial of each verse is highlighted in red and yellow. The titles of the psalms are rubricated. The scholia predominantly convey hexaplaric readings (these readings were fully collected by F. Albrecht in 2023). The manuscript has been heavily trimmed, with some scholia partially cut off. | Text-type: L.
Content
Hierosol., ff. 1r–72v Ps 20:10a–68:13a with scholia
Petropol., ff. 72Ar–72Fv Ps 68:13b–71:5a with scholia; Ps 70:6b–15c = Cereteli pl. X
Hierosol., ff. 73r–182v Ps 71:5b–118:99b; 123:6b–134:15b; 135:12a–148:6b with scholia
Bibliography
Cereteli, F.G./Sobolewski, I.S, Exempla codicum graecorum litteris uncialibus scriptorum, St. Peterburg 1913, pl. X (ff. 72Dv–Er).
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv, 2014, 66, n. 9; 67, n. 15.
Rahlfs, A., Der Text des Septuaginta Psalters, Göttingen 1907, 10 (description, collation notes).
Tischendorf C., Anecdota sacra et profana ex oriente et occidente allata, Leipzig 1861, 224–225.
Catalogues
Granstrem, E.E.: “Каталог греческих рукописей ленинградских хранилищ. 1. Рукописи IV–IX веков”, in: Византийский временник 16 (1959), 216–43, 236 (Nr. 79, Греч. 263).
Lebedeva, I.N., Каталог греческих рукописей Российской национальной библиотеки, St. Petersburg 2014, 120 (Nr. 274, Греч. 263).
Papadopoulos–Kerameus, Α., Ἱεροσολυμιτικὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου ἀποστολικοῦ τε καὶ καθολικοῦ ὀρθοδόξου πατριαρχικοῦ θρόνου τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ πάσης Παλαιστίνης ἀποκειμένων ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων, vol. 3, Saint–Petersburg 1897, 156–57, pl. σελ. 156 (ff. 88v–89r).
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 84.