Beta

Ra 1134

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Grec 140. No diktyon: 49707.
s. X; s. XIII–XIV  s. X: ff. 1–4, 6–155; s. XIII–XIV: ff. 5, 156–166 | Parchment (I, 1-166, I'), 166, 350 × 240 mm, 1 col., var. lines per page  24/27: Text; 59: Catena; 31: ff. 1r–2v. |  Minuscule (Perlschrift Text, ff. 1–4, 6–155; Majuscule (Petite ogivale)  Titles, ff. 1–4, 6–155; Minuscule (Mimetic script)  ff. 5, 156–166. | Owners: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), humanist and Italian philosopher, Domenico Grimani (1461-1523), Cardinal  The Pico della Mirandola library was purchased by the cardinal Domenico Grimani in 1498 (cf. Kibre, P., The library of Pico della Mirandola, New York 1936, 18). Cf. also Jackson, D., A List of Greek Mss of Domenico Grimani, in Scriptorium 62 (2008), 164-169, Jean Hurault de Boistaillé (15th-1572), French diplomat and bibliophile  f. 001r: bottom margin. Cf. Conihout (de), I., Jean et André Hurault: Deux frères ambassadeurs à Venise et acquéreurs de livres du cardinal Grimani, in Italique10 (2007), 107-148.
Psalms with commentary, Odes. | The manuscript transmits a Catena commentary on the Psalms. The securities and the initial letters are rubricated in red, there are some decorated initial letters. The final part of the manuscript has been reinstated with later additions. These late additions have no Catena comment (see content).Text-type: L.
Content
1r–2vΘεοδωρήτου Ἐπισκόπου Κύρου, προθεωρία τῶν ψαλμῶν.
3r–vBlanked
4r–155vPs 1-150 Catena “Theodoretiana” Typus XVII Karo-Lietzmann, Catenarum Graecorum Catalogus, 49. CPG C 30
156rPs 151 13th-14th century, additions
156v–166vOdes without Catena 13th-14th century, additions
156v–157vOd 1
157v–160rOd 2
160r–160vOd 3
161r–162rOd 4
162r–162vOd 5
162v–163rOd 6
163r–165rOd 7
165r–165vOd 8
165v–166vOd 9
Bibliography
Jackson, D., “A List of Greek Mss of Domenico Grimani”, in Scriptorium 62 (2008) 164–169, 167 (no. 172). 
Jackson, D., “The Greek Manuscripts of Jean Hurault de Boistaillé”, in Studi italiani di filologia classica 2 (2004) 209–252, 233.
Maries, L., "Aurions–nous le commentaire sur les Psaumes de Diodore de Tarse?”, in Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire ancienne 35 (1911) 56–70, 62, 67. 
Richard, M., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt, Oslo 1956 (Symbolae Osloenses fasc. Suppl. 16), XXXIV.
Catalogues
Karo, G. – Lietzmann, H., Catenarum Graecorum Catalogus, Göttingen 1902 (Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), 49. 
Omont, H., Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque nationale et des autres bibliothèques de Paris et des Départements, I, Paris 1886, 17. 
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 201.