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–VIIIBlank
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-21cf. 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–7:6f. 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–12vPs 3:4a–13:7c with marginal commentary“Anonymus Vindobonensis”, cf. Parpulov, 2014: 141
13r–18vPs 16:15a– 18:15b with marginal commentary
19r–215rPs 20:3b-151
215rTitl: Δόγμα περὶ Τριάδοςinc.: Πατὴρ Υἱός Πνεῦμα ἅγιον τρία πρόσωτα μία εἰκών fin.: καὶ φύσις καὶ γένος καὶ μορφὴ καὶ ἀξία ἕv ἐστιν
215v–229vOde 1–7 with marginal commentary“Anonymus Vindobonensis”, cf. Parpulov, 2014: 141
229v–230rDan 3:46-51
230v–232vOd 8 with marginal commentary
232v–233rOde 9Without commentary: text on two columns
233v–235rOde 11–14Without commentary: text on two columns
235r–236vHymns and Prayers
236v–237vverse epigramscf. DBBE
237vSubscription
238rPater noster (Latin in Greek characters)tit. Τὸ Πατὴρ ἠμῶν (sic.) ρωμάϊκον (sic.)
238r–241rVarious texts and some excerpta from a Euchologion (cf. Mancini, 1907:184)
242r–242vSome notes no longer readable
I'–II'
Bibliography
Canart, P.– Perria,L.: “Les écritures livresques des XI et XII siècles”, in Harlfinger, D., – Prato, G., Paleografia e codicologia greca. Atti del II Colloquio internazionale Berlino–Wolfenbüttel, 17–20 ottobre 1983, Alessandria 1991, 67–116, 109.
Lucà, S. : “Teodoro Sacerdote, copista del Reg. gr. Pii II 35. Appunti su scribi e committenti di manoscritti greci”, Bollettino della Badia greca di Grottaferrata 55 (2001), 127–163, 142 and n. 63.
Lucà, S.: «Un codice greco del 1124 a Siracusa», Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 38 (2001), 69–94, 88 (n. 70). 
Meesters, R. – Praet, R.,– Bernard, F. – Demoen, K.: “Makarios’ cycle of epigrams on the Psalms Bodleian Baroccianus 194”, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109 (2016), 837–860, 842.
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.
Author Margherita Matera
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