Beta
Ra 1175
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 754. No diktyon: 67385.
s. X in.
| Parchment, 395 ff., 350 × 255
mm Agati, p. 43: 355 × 365,
1 col., 35 lines per page
Special type of ruling (Leroy 60B1 ps, cf. Agati).
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Minuscule (Digraphic script, mainly minuscule, partly majuscule) cf. Agati, p. 44; Orsini, p. 65; Majuscule (Majuscule letters used as Auszeichnungsschrift for headings and Hexaplaric scholia); Minuscule (Minuscule slightly inclined to the right with a rather fast cursive ductus).
| Provenance: Listed in the Vatican inventory of 1548 as Nr. 186.
Catena in Psalms and Odes. Preceded by patristic texts.
| Psalms surrounded by marginal Catena commentary („Rahmenkatene“), that belongs to Catena Typus XIX Karo-Lietzmann (CPG C 32) and is called Catena Athanasiana. This type is also transmitted in Ra 187, 1055, 1139, 1735, and Ra 1813. Psalm 151 without commentary. Odes provided with Catena commentary (biblical text in Majuscule, commentary in Minuscule; sequence of Odes: 1–9. 13. 11–12. 14). The first folios, containing different prologues to the Psalter, are in disorder (correct order, which has been virtually reconstructed: ff. 1–4. 7–10. 5–6. 26. 19–24. 27. 32. 29–31. 34–36. 33. 11. 25. 15–18. 28. 14. 12–13. 37–395). The ms. has been used e.g. by Rondeau, et al., for the edition of the Psalter scholia of Euagrius Ponticus, and by Bandt, et al., for the edition of the Psalter prologues of Origen and Eusebius (Ms. V). On the Seven editions of Scripture (f. 28r–v), incl. the treatise on Lucian of Antioch (f. 28v), cf. Albrecht, 120–122. The Catena of Psalms contains Hexaplaric readings and was already evaluated by Montfaucon (however, for Ps 1–16 only; the Hexaplaric readings of Ps 17–150 were edited in 1784 by Adler) The Hexaplaric readings were consequently adapted by Field for his edition of the Hexaplaric fragments.
| Collation: Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters (Psalm 1–151); Montfaucon (Hexaplaric readings); Field (Hexaplaric readings); Digitale kritische Edition von den Expositiones in Psalmos des (Ps) Athanasius von Alexandrien (Uta Heil, Sebastiano Panteghini) (Catena text Ps 1–10, Hexaplaric readings Ps 1–10); Risch (Eusebius Ps 101–150).
| Content | |
| 1r–2v | missing |
| 3r–8r | Inscriptiones et initia Psalmorum |
| 8r–8v | Inscriptiones et initia Canticorum |
| 8v–9r | Inscriptiones aliae |
| 9r | Iosippus Christianus, Libellus memorialis 120 ed. PG 106, 121-123. Repeated in several contexts, e.g. Theodoret of Cyrus, ed. PG 84, 32 |
| 9r–12v | Origenes, In Psalmos, attributed to Eusebius CPG 1425-1429 |
| 9v | Origenes, De divisione Psalterii ed. TU 183, 30-31 |
| 10r–10v | Origenes, Definitiones ed. TU 183, 66-69 |
| 10v–11r | Origenes, De divisione Psalmorum ed. TU 183, 38-49 |
| 11v–12r | Origenes, De diapsalmate ed. TU 183, 60-63 |
| 12r–12v | Origenes, De Psalmis Moysi ed. TU 183, 52-57 |
| 12v–15v | quomodo arca in Hierusalem translata est et compositum Psalterium |
| 15v–25v | Athanasius Alexandrinus, Epistula ad Marcellinum CPG 2097 |
| 25v | Eusebius, De divisione Psalterii |
| 25v–28r | Eusebius, Periochae ed. TU 183, 128-141 |
| 28r–28v | Ps.-Athanasius Alexandrinus, Synopsis scripturae sacrae CPG 2249, ed. PG 28, 436. Anonymously transmitted in this ms. Repeated in several contexts, e.g. Theodoret of Cyrus, ed. PG 84, 28-32; Iosippus Christianus, Libellus memorialis 122 (ed. PG 106, 123-126) |
| 28v–34r, 36v | Gregorius Nyssenus, In inscriptiones Psalmorum CPG 3155 |
| 34r–36r | Eusebius, Hypomnema de Psalmis, attributed to Origen (incomplete, two folios missing after f. 34v) ed. TU 183, 240-269; cf. Bandt/Risch, p. 397 n. 10; Bandt et al., p. 221 n. 12 |
| 36r–36v | Iosippus Christianus, Libellus memorialis 73 ed. PG 106, 85-88 |
| 037r–356v | Ps 1–150 with Catena CPG C 32 |
| 356v | Ps 151 partly surrounded by the end of the preceding Catena to Ps 150 |
| 357r–395v | Odes with Catena beginning mutilated |
| 357r–360v | Od 1 |
| 360v–370r | Od 2 |
| 370r–372r | Od 3 |
| 372r–376r | Od 4 |
| 376r–383r | Od 5 |
| 383r–385v | Od 6 |
| 385v–388r | Od 7 |
| 388r–389v | Od 8 (Dan 3:57-88) |
| 389v–392r | Od 9 |
| 392r–392v | Od 13 |
| 392v–395r | Od 11 |
| 395r–395v | Od 12 |
| 395v | Od 14 |
Bibliography
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Bandt, C./Risch, F.X.: Das Hypomnema des Origenes zu den Psalmen. Eine unerkannte Schrift des Eusebius, in: Adamantius 19 (2013), 395–435, p. 397 (Prologues).
Canart, P./Peri, V.: Sussidi bibliografici per i manoscritti greci della Biblioteca Vaticana (StT 261), Rome 1970, p. 482 (Bibliography).
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Mercati, G.: Osservazioni a Proemi del Salterio di Origene, Ippolito, Eusebio, Cirillo Alessandrino e altri con frammenti inediti (StT 142), Rome 1948 (Prologues).
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Richard, M. (ed.): Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt. Accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae (Symbolae Osloenses. Fasciculi suppletorii 16), Oslo 1956, p. xxiii, n. 40.
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Zaganas, D.: Encore sur l’authenticité de l’Hexaéméron d’Anastase le Sinaïte, in: ByZ 110 (2017), 755–778, pp. 760–761.
Catalogues
Cardinali, G.: Inventari di manoscritti greci della Biblioteca Vaticana sotto il pontificato di Giulio II (1503–1513) (StT 491), Rome 2015 (Provenance).
Devreesse, R.: Codices Vaticani Graeci vol. 3, Codices 604–866 (Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti iubente Leone XIII Pont. Max.), Rome 1950, pp. 269–271.
Devreesse, R.: Le fonds Grec de la Bibliothèque Vaticane des origines a Paul V (StT 244), Rome 1965, pp. 302. 379. 394 (Provenance).
Inventarium (1533), ed. Devreesse, p. 302 (Nr. 666) (?).
Jean Matal, Index Bibliothecae publicae Grecae (sic!) (1545), ed. Devreesse, p. 379 (Nr. 226 / 19) (?).
Karo G., Lietzmann, H., Catenarum graecarum catalogus, Göttingen 1902 (Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), pp. 41. 54–56.
Marcel Cervini, Guillaume Sirleto, Index librorum Graecorum Bibliothecae magnae Vaticanae (1548), ed. Devreesse, p. 394 (Nr. 186).
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, p. 256.
Editions
Bandt, C. et al. (eds.): Die Prologtexte zu den Psalmen von Origenes und Eusebius (TU 183), Berlin u.a. 2018 (Ms. V).
Risch, F.X. (ed.): Eusebius von Caesarea, Werke Band X, Der Psalmenkommentar. Teil 3: Fragmente zu Psalm 101–150 (GCS NF 32), Berlin et al. 2022, pp. xvii–xviii (Ms. V).
Rondeau, M. et al. (eds.): Évagre le Pontique, Scholies aux Psaumes, I. Psaumes 1–70 (SC 614), Paris 2021.
Online sources
- Digi VAT Digitized Microfilm
- Expositiones in Psalmos des (Ps) Athanasius Uta Heil, Sebastiano Panteghini
- Blog post by Matthieu Cassin (2022-01-25)
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