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.
Owner: Λέων (s. XI).
Provenance: Southern Italy.
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.
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
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Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE)
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