Beta

Ra 1186

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, gr. 29. No diktyon: 58404.
s. IX | Parchment, 320 ff., 150 × 118 mm  150 × 110 (Rahlfs), 150 × 118 (Kamil), 1 col., 17 lines per page. |  Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale inclinata). | Provenance: Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine.
Psalms and Odes. | The beginning and end of the manuscript are lost. Kamil dates it to the 8th-9th centuries. The manuscript has still its original binding and the indication of the ancient quires is still visible: Γʹ - <Μαʹ>. | Text-type: L with few readings from U and S.
Content
1r–304r Ps 6:11b-Ps 151
304v–306v Ode 1
307r–313v Ode 2
313v–315v Ode 3
315v–318v Ode 4
318v–320r Ode 5
320r–320v Ode 6
Bibliography
Harlfinger, D.: “Beispiele der Maiuscula ogivalis inclinata vom Sinai und aus Damaskus”, in M. D'Agostino (ed.), Alethes Philia. Studi in onore di Giancarlo Prato (Collectanea, 23), Spoleto 2010, 461–477, 465, 468, pl. VIIb. 
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 81, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Gardthausen, V.:Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford 1886, 8–9. 
Kamil, M.: Catalogue of all manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970, 63. 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 287.