Beta
Ra 1077
Cologne, Manuskript-Bibliothek des Doms, Cod. 8. No diktyon: 36856.
s. XI/2
| Parchment, 165 ff., 408 × 316
mm,
4 col., 40 lines per page.
|
Minuscule (ff. 1r-8v, 10r-165v); Majuscule (ff. 9r-9v).
| Provenance: Monastery of Michelsberg, Bamberg .
see Hoffmann 1995:180 and Gryson 2004:54
Psalterium Quadruplex. Psalms and Odes.
| The manuscript is an apograph of the Bamberg Psalter. Like its Vorlage, it consists of four columns: the first three columns contain the so-called Gallicanum, Romanum and Hebraicum by Jerome and the fourth one transmits the Graecum, which is a Greek version of the Psalms written in Latin script. Red initials mark the beginning of each psalm.
| Text-type: L, Ga.
| Content | |
| 1r–8r | Jerome’s epistle to Sunnias and Fretela |
| 8r | Preface to the Psalms, tit. Incipit origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL |
| 8r–8v | Jerome’s epistle to Paula and Eustochius |
| 8v | Jerome’s epistle to Sophronius |
| 9r–9v | Dedicatory poem of Salomon III The first six verses are missing |
| 10r–147r | Ps 1–151 The fourth column is vacant in Ps 151 |
| 147v | Book of Isaiah 12 (12:5 om.). Is. 12:1 (εὐλογήσω σε] exomologisome si) The third column is vacant |
| 147v–148v | Ode 11 |
| 148v–149v | Ode 3 The last line is missing |
| 149v–151r | Ode 1 v. 15 is missing in the fourth column |
| 151r–153r | Ode 4 |
| 153r–156v | Ode 2 |
| 156v–157r | Ode 8:57-87 The third column is vacant |
| 157r–158r | Ode 9: Prayer of Zachariah The third column is vacant |
| 158r–158v | Ode 9: Prayer of the Holy Virgin The third column is vacant |
| 158v | Ode 13 The third column is vacant |
| 159r–159v | The Apostles’ Creed (Credo) and the Lord’s Prayer (Pater Noster) in Latin and the Greek text in Latin script (Pisteuo, Pater imon). The hymn Te Deum laudamus and a Greek translation in Latin script. The hymn Te decet laus |
| 160r | The Athanasian Creed |
| 160v–164v | Litany of saints in Greek and Latin. As in the Bamberg Psalter, the litany refers to the Carolingian king Louis (900–911) |
Bibliography
Berschin, W.: “Salomons III. Psalterium quadrupartitum in Köln und Heidelberg. Mit Anhang: Die Bamberg/Coburg/Freiburger Fragmente eines Psalterium quadrupartitum”, in A. von Euw – P. Schreiner (eds.), Kaiserin Theophanu. Begegnung des Ostens und Westens um die Wende des ersten Jahrtausends, Köln 1991, 327–334, 327–328.
Göttingen, Univ.–Bibl., Cod. Lagarde 17 (collation of the Ps 1–5).
Gryson, R.: Manuscrits vieux latins: répertoire descriptif, II, Freiburg 2004, 54–55.
McKitterick, R.: “Ottonian Intellectual Culture in the Tenth Century and the role of Theophanu”, in: Early Medieval Europe, 2/1 (1993) 53–74, 58.
McKitterick, R.: “Ottonian Intellectual Culture in the Tenth Century”, in A. Davids (ed.), The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium, Cambridge 1995, 175.
Plotzek, J. and U. Surmann: Glaube und Wissen im Mittelalter – die Kölner Dombibliothek, München 1998, 282.
Radiciotti, P.: “Manoscritti digrafici grecolatini e latinogreci nell’alto medioevo”, in H. Fillitz and O. Kresten, Römische historische Mitteilungen. Band 40, Wien 1998, 49–118, 69.
Online sources
- Köln, Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Digital Images
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