Beta

Ra 1075

Jerusalem, Patriarchal Library, Τάφου 55. No diktyon: 35292.
s. XII | Parchment, 266 ff., 190 × 150 mm, 1 col., 18-19 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Epsilon style). | Scribe: Ματθαίος μοναχός (?)  cf. Papadopoulos Kerameus (1891: 138). | Provenance: Palestine (?).
Psalms and Odes (illuminated). | There is a floral headpiece to Ps 1. Cutler dates the manuscript to the late 12th century or to the early 13th century. | Text-type: L.
Content
1–239vPs 1-151
240r–242rOde 1
242r–247rOde 2
247r–248vOde 3. Miniature of Habakkuk (f. 248v).
249r–251rOde 4
251v–253rOde 5. Miniature of Isaiah (f. 251v).
253r–254rOde 6. Miniature of Jonah (f. 253r). Miniature depicting the Three Hebrews in the furnace and the archangel Michael (254r).
254v–256vOde 7
256v–259vDaniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
260r–262rOde 9. Miniature of the Holy Virgin adored by the monk Matthew, caption: Προσευχὴ τοῦ δούλου τοῦ θεοῦ Ματθέου (sic) μοναχοῦ.
262r–263vOde 11
263v–265vOde 12
266rBlank
Bibliography
Baumstark, A.: “Zur byzantinischen Odenillustration”, Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte 21 (1907), 157–165, 162–166, 169. 
Cutler, A.: The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris 1984, 43.
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
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. 1, Saint–Petersburg 1891, 137–138.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 85. 
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