Beta
Ra 1089
London, British Library, Add. 36928. No diktyon: 39141.
a. 1090
| Parchment, 307 ff., 120 × 100 mm Text area: 85 × 50 (prefaces), 80 × 60 (Psalms), 18 lines per page.
Minuscule.
Owner: Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), Walter Sneyd (1752-1829).
Provenance: Monastery of St. Sabas in Palestine.
Psalms and Odes with illustrations.
| Several folios have been severely damaged and part of the text is not readable. Prognostic sentences can be found in the upper and lower margins of the Psalms and verses in the margins of the Odes.
Text-type: L.
Bibliography
Cutler, A., “A Psalter from Mar Saba and the Evolution of the Byzantine David Cycle”, Journal of Jewish Art 6 (1979) 39–63.
Cutler, A., The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris 1984, cat. 30.
Flury, S., “Islamische Ornamente in einem griechischen Psalter von ca. 1090”, Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients 7 (1916), 115–170.
Rhoby, A., Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien 2018, 304–307.
Spatharakis, I., Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453 (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, cat. 109.
Catalogues
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900–1905, London 1850, 257–259.
