Beta

Ra 1123

Oxford, Bodleian Library, E. D. Clarke 15. No diktyon: 47770.
a. 1078 | Parchment, 257 ff., 110 × 140 mm  Text area: 64 × 45, 1 col., 16 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Perlschrift)  ff. 11-231r, 232-254; Majuscule (Εpigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel)  ff. 3-11, 231v. | Owners: Μάρκος, μονότροπος (11th c.), Παναγιώτης Κεχαγιάς (18th c.?), cf. the possession note on f. 10v..
Psalms and Odes. | The manuscript is beautifully decorated with gilded lettering, initials and headpieces in gold, red, blue and green colour. Iambic monostichs mark the beginning of each Ode. | Text-type: L.
Content
Ιr–Iv Fragments of hymns. The folio derives from another manuscript.
1r–2v Michael Psellos, Poem on the Psalms https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/16927
3r–9r Poem in hexameters https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/16928
9v Miniature of a cross and an epigram https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/17230
10r Blank
10v Miniature of David
11r–230v Ps 1-151
231r Comment on the word “διάψαλμα”, inc. “Τοῦ διαψάλματος τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλο σημαίνειν εἰρήκασιν”.
231v Epigram surrounded by an ornamented frame https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/17231
232r–233v Ode 1
233v–238v Ode 2
238v–240r Ode 3
240r–242r Ode 4
242r–243v Ode 5
243v–244r Ode 6
244r–246v Ode 7
246v–249r Daniel 46-51 and Ode 8
249r–250v Ode 9
250v–252r Ode 11
252r–254r Ode 12
254v–256v Easter tables
257r–257v Fragments of hymns. The folio derives from another manuscript, cf. f. I.
Bibliography
Bernard, F. and K. Demoen, “Book Epigrams”, in W. Hörandner, A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden 2019, 404–429, 412, 419.
Crostini, B., “Perils of Travel or Joys of Heaven? Reconsidering the Travelling Hypothesis for Bodleian Library, MS E. D. Clarke 15 and the function of Diminutive Manuscripts”, Manuscripta 63/1 (2019), 63–104.
Hutter, I., Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, I, Stuttgart 1977, 46–47.
Lake, K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule manuscripts to the year 1200, II, Boston 1934, 12.
Lauxtermann, M., “The Perils of Travel: Mark the Monk and Bodl. E.D. Clarke 15”, in F. Bernard and K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contents in Eleventh–century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington 2012, 195–206.
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 130 (https://archive.org/details/ByzPsalters).
Rhoby, A., Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien 2018, 318–320.
Stefec, R., “Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel”, Byzantion 81 (2011), 326–361, 339–348.
Catalogues
Gaisford, T., Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur, Oxford 1812, 57–61 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433057514238&view=1up&seq=67).
Madan F., A Summary Catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, IV, Oxford 1897, 302 (https://archive.org/details/ASummaryCatalogueOfWesternManuscriptsV4/page/n321/mode/2up).
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 171 (https://archive.org/details/verzeichnisdergr00rahl).
Author Maria Tomadaki
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