Beta
Ra 1179
Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1812. No diktyon: 68441.
s. IX; s. X; s. XIII
ff. 1-168: s. XIII (scriptura superior); ff. 1-168: s. X (scriptura inferior); ff. 169r-170v: s. IX (cf. Agati: 1991, p. 48 n. 4)
| Palimpsest (ff. 1-168)
The scriptura inferior is dated to the 10th c. and it contains troparia of the Pentecostarion. The scriptura superior is dated to the 13th c. and it consists of the Psalms.; Parchment (ff. 169-170), 170 ff., 190 × 130
mm,
1 col., 17 lines per page.
| Minuscule (Italian informal hand (scriptura superior));
Minuscule (Old angular minuscule (Scriptura inferior));
Minuscule (ff. 169r-170v: “Minuscola libraria” (cf. Agati: 1991)).
| Provenance: Italy.
see Canart (1979: 248)
Psalms and Odes.
| Canart dated the scriptura superior to s. XIII, whereas Rahlfs and Parpulov dated it to s. XII.
| Text-type: L and B.
| Content | |
| 1r | Illegible scribal notes |
| 1v–168v | Ps 17-118:55 |
| 169r–170v | Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 28. Inc. “καὶ μέχρι τῶν οὐρανίων ὀδεύοντος”, des. “διοικεῖται ὁ ἄνθρωπος βούλει σοι καὶ τὰς τῶν” |
Bibliography
Agati, M.: “Problemi di tratteggio e ductus nella minuscola libraria più antica”, in D. Harlfinger, G. Prato (eds.), Paleografia e codicologia greca (Atti del II Colloquio internazionale Berlino–Wolfenbüttel, 17–20 ottobre 1983), Alessandria 1991, 47–66, 48, 53, 55, 64, 66.
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