Beta

Ra 1100

Messina, Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria “Giacomo Longo”, San Salvatore 117. No diktyon: 40778.
DBBE ID: 14362.
s. VIII–XIII  1115-1116: ff. 001r-237v (subscr. f. 237v); XIII: ff. 238r–242v; VIII: ff. Xr-XIv (scriptura inferior) cf. Mancini, 1907:185; XI–XII: f. Xr–XIv (scriptura media); XII: ff. IXr–XIv (scriptura superior; later replacements for lost original folia). | Paper (ff. Ir–VIIIv, I’-II'); Palimpsest (ff. IXr–XIv); Parchment (ff. 1r–242v), 242 ff., 196 × 161 mm  Text area mm 153/162x120/126, 1-2 col., 22–24 lines per page. |  Minuscule (“Scrittura di Reggio”)  ff. 1r–237v; Minuscule (several supplementary hands)  ff. 238r–242v; Minuscule (“Scrittura rossanese”)  ff. IXr–XIv; Majuscule (Ogivale diritta ff. Xr–XIv: scriptura inferior; Majuscule (“Auszeichnungsmajuskel”)  ff. 1r–237v: Titles. | Scribe: Λέων νοτάριος πόλεως Ῥηγίου  VGH: 262D; RGK III 389-390. | Provenance: Reggio di Calabria.
Psalms and Odes with commentary, plus fragments from an Old Testament Lectionary. | This manuscript contains Psalms and Odes with an anonymous marginal commentary the same as manuscripts Vindob. Theol. gr. 152 and Vat. Barber. gr. 455, recognised by Georgi Parpulov (2014:141 n. 1). On ff. 001r-232v, the text is arranged in two columns: the first occupied by the text and the second by the anonymous commentary; starting from f. 233v, there is only the text without any commentary. Traces of the quires numbering are still visible on certain leaves, i. e., f. 7, upper outer margin: β´. | Text-type: L.
Content
I–VIII Blank
IXr–v (scr. sup.) Hymn for the Anastasis with musical anotations (cf. Mancini, 1907:182-183)
IXr–v (scr. inf.) Not decipherable. In this folio, someone has used a light solution of Oak-gall tincture to refresh the scriptura inferior
Xr–XIv (scr. sup.) Ps 1:1a-2:5b with anonymous commentary
Xr–XIv (scr. med.) fragments from an Old Testament Lectionary (Prophetologion), e.g. Gen 9:11-17; Prov 12:8a-23a; Is 26:21a-21c f. Xr, decipherment: Prov 12:8a-16a, inc.: στόμα δικαίου ἐγκωμιάζεται ὑπὸ ἀνδροῦ, νοθροκάρδιος δὲ μυκτηρίζεται. fin.: ὁδοὶ ἀφρόνων ὀρθαὶ ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν, εἰσακούει δὲ συμβουλίας σοφός. ἄφρων ἀφθη (sic.). f. XIv, decipherment: Gen 9:11-17, inc.: ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι κατακλυσμὸς ὕδατος τοῦ καταφθεῖραι πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. fin.: καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς τῷ Νωε Τοῦτο τὸ σημεῖον τῆς διαθήκης, ἧς διεθέμην ἀνὰ μέσον ἐμοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον πάσης σαρκός, ἥ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
Xr–XIv (scr. inf.) fragments from an Old Testament Lectionary (Prophetologion), e.g. Gen 6:17-23; Prov 6:23a-31b; Is 6:31b–7:6 f. Xr, decipherment: Prov 6:23a-31b,  inc.: ὅτι λύχνος ἐντολὴ νόμου καὶ φῶς, καὶ ὁδὸς ζωῆς ἔλεγχος καὶ παιδεία. fin.: ἐὰν γὰρ ἁλο, ἀποτήση ἑπταπλάσηα καὶ πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ δούς. f. XIv, decipherment: Gen 6:17-23, inc.: […] σελεύσῃ δὲ εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ ἡ γυνή σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶν υἱῶν σου μετὰ σοῦ. fin.: καὶ ἐποίησεν Νωε πάντα, ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ κύριος ὁ θεός, οὕτως ἐποίησεν
1r–12v Ps 3:4a–13:7c with marginal commentary “Anonymus Vindobonensis”, cf. Parpulov, 2014: 141
13r–18v Ps 16:15a– 18:15b with marginal commentary
19r–215r Ps 20:3b-151
215r Titl: Δόγμα περὶ Τριάδος inc.: Πατὴρ Υἱός Πνεῦμα ἅγιον τρία πρόσωτα μία εἰκών fin.: καὶ φύσις καὶ γένος καὶ μορφὴ καὶ ἀξία ἕv ἐστιν
215v–229v Ode 1–7 with marginal commentary “Anonymus Vindobonensis”, cf. Parpulov, 2014: 141
229v–230r Dan 3:46-51
230v–232v Od 8 with marginal commentary
232v–233r Ode 9 Without commentary: text on two columns
233v–235r Ode 11–14 Without commentary: text on two columns
235r–236v Hymns and Prayers
236v–237v verse epigrams cf. DBBE
237v Subscription
238r Pater noster (Latin in Greek characters) tit. Τὸ Πατὴρ ἠμῶν (sic.) ρωμάϊκον (sic.)
238r–241r Various texts and some excerpta from a Euchologion (cf. Mancini, 1907:184)
242r–242v Some notes no longer readable
I'–II'
Bibliography
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Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014, 141, 153, 161, 167, 216–217, 220–221, 223, 239–241. 
Catalogues
Lake, K. – Lake, S.: Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, IX: Manuscripts in Rome, part III, in Messina, in Naples, and in London, Boston (Massachusetts) 1938, 5 (nr. 348). 
Mancini, A.: Codices Graeci monasterii Messanensis S. Salvatoris, Messina 1907, 182–185 (https://www2.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/brum/manoscritti_mancini/p.182-183.jpg). 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 137. 
Rodriquez, M.: Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria, Messina: Catalogo dei manoscritti datati del Fondo del SS. Salvatore, Palermo 1999, 24–26.