Beta

Ra 1171

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 619. No diktyon: 67250.
a. 1014  a. 1014 (Rahlfs), a. 1016 (Parpulov), before November a. 1021 (Dorival) | Parchment, 348 ff., 222 × 150 mm, 1 col., 16/40 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Italian hands); Majuscule (Auszeichnungsmajuskel ff. 13r, 332v-333r. | Provenance: Southern Italy. | Owner: Λέων (s. XI).
Psalms and Odes with marginal catena. | The f. 347 is lacking. Prognostic sentences have been added in the upper margin by a later hand. The catena includes hexaplaric readings, see for instance the marginal notes on ff. 210v, 211v, 214v, 215v, 220v, 227v. The initials are written in red, blue and yellow colour.Text-type: L.
Content
Ir–Iv Drawing of a man and scribblings
IIr–IIv Scribblings
1r–5r Theodoret of Cyrus, Protheoria to the Psalms PG 80, 857-865
5r Notes by later hands
5v–6r Ode 14 and a prayer
6v The Nicene Creed
7r–9v Hypothesis of the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea PG 23, 68B-72C
10r–12v Paschal tables
13r The hymn Φῶς ἱλαρόν and a possession note
13v–16r Theophilos the Elder, Interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer, tit. “ἐρμηνία (sic) και διδασκαλία Θεoφίλου πρεσβυτέρου εἰς τὸ πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς” cf. Parpulov (2014: 167)
16v Fragment related to the prognostic sentences
17r–332v Ps 1-151 with catena CPG C40.15
333r–333v Makarismoi
334r–335v Ode 1 with catena CPG C40.15
335v–339v Ode 2 with catena
339v–340v Ode 3 with catena
340v–341r Ode 4 with catena
341r–341v Ode 5 with catena
341v–342r Ode 6 with catena
342r–343r Ode 7 with catena
343r–344v Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8 with catena
344v–345r Ode 9 with catena
345r–345v Ode 11 with catena
346r–346v Ode 12, Ode 13:29-30 with catena
348r Fragment related to the prognostic sentences
Bibliography
Dorival, G.: Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, III, Leuven 1992, 137–170 (On the date of the manuscript see p. 169).
Lake, K., Lake, S.: Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, Manuscripts in Rome, vol. 7, Boston 1937, 12.
Lucà, S., “Dalle collezioni manoscritte di Spagna: Libri originari o provenienti dall'Italia greca medievale”, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 44 (2007), 38–96, 76 (n. 91).
Mühlenberg, E.: Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenüberlieferung, Band III, Berlin–New York 1978, 98–99.
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 99 (n. 40), 102 (n. 57), 167, 170, 236 (n. 45), Appendix B1. 
Rodriquez, M.: “Riflessioni sui palinsesti giuridici dell'area dello Stretto”, in A. Rigo (ed.), Vie per Bisanzio. VIII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini. Venezia, 25–28 novembre 2009, Due punti 25, Bari 2013, 625–645.
Catalogues
Devreesse, R.: Codices Vaticani Graeci, III: Codices 604–866, Vatican City 1950, 26–28.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 252.