Göttinger Septuaginta

Beta

Ra 1187

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, gr. 30. N^o diktyon: 58405.

s. IX; s. XIV; s. XVI s. IX: ff. 49r-403v; s. XIV: ff. 6r-48v; s. XVI: ff. 1r-5v, 404r-419v | Parchment; Paper (ff. 1-48, 404-419), 419 ff., 182 × 130 mm 180 × 130 (Parpulov), 182 × 130 Harlfinger, 180 × 106 (Rahlfs), 180 × 120 Gardthausen, 1 col., 20 lines per page. | Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale inclinata) ff. 49r-403v; Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale diritta) ff. 49r-403v (titles), f. 55; Majuscule (Maiuscola biblica) ff. 50v-51r; Minuscule (Archaizing hand) ff. 6r-48v; Minuscule (Sixteenth-century hands) ff. 1r-5v, 404r-419v. | Provenance: Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine.

Psalms and Odes. | Kamil dates the manuscript to the 8th-9th centuries. The indication of the ancient quires is still visible: αʹ- μδʹ. | Text-type: L with few readings fromU and S.

Content
Ir–IIr	Blank
IIv	Decorated cross with the four-part acronym IC XC NK (Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς νικᾷ).
1r–27r	Andrew of Crete, Great Canon. Inc. “Πόθεν ἄρξομαι θρηνεῖν τὰς τοῦ ἀθλίου μου βίου πράξεις”. PG 97: 1329 ff
27v–35r	Akolouthia of the Akathistos Hymn
35v–48v	Supplicatory canon dedicated to Christ, inc. “Ἰησοῦ γλυκύτατε Xριστέ, Ἰησοῦ μακρόθυμε”.
49r–50v	The Nicene Creed
50v	Iambic poem see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24247
50v–51r	Lord’s Prayer
51r	Iambic poem see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24289
51v–54r	Eusebius of Caesarea, Hypothesis on the Psalms ed. PG 23, 66-72 and Bandt (2019: 38-48)
54r–55r	Excerpt from John Chrysostom, tit. “Toῦ ἁγίου Χρυσοστόμου ἐκ τοῦ λόγου τοῦ περὶ ὑπομονῆς καὶ εἰς τὸν γραφῶν μελέτην”. PG 63: 940, cf. Parpulov (2014: 174)
55r	Iambic poem see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24532
55v	Blank
56r–367v	Ps 1-150
367v–368r	References to Κathismata
368r–369r	Ps 151
369r–372r	Ode 1
372r–379r	Ode 2
379r–381r	Ode 3
381r–384r	Ode 4
384r–385v	Ode 5
386r–387r	Ode 6
387r–390r	Ode 7
390r–393v	Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
393v–395v	Ode 9
395v–396r	Ode 13
396r	The vesperal hymn Φῶς ἱλαρὸν
398r–399r	Makarismoi
399r–400v	The hymn of the Great Compline “Μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός”, cf. Isaiah 8:9-18.
400v–403v	Ode 12
404r–417v	Stichera, inc. “Ὡς γενναίον ἐν μαρτύσιν Συμεὼν ὑμνήσθωσαν”.
417v–419v	Megalynaria

Bibliography

Bandt, C.: “Origenes (?), De divisione psalmorum”, in C. Bandt, Fr. X. Risch and B. Villani, Die Prologtexte zu den Psalmen von Origenes und Eusebius (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (TU) 183), Berlin–Boston 2019, 32–49.

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, 467, 468, pl. I, VIIIa.

Parpulov, G.: “Psalters and Personal Piety in Byzantium”, in R. Nelson (ed.), The Old Testament in Byzantium, Washington DC, 2010, 77–105, p. 89 (n. 54).

Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 80 (n. 17), 81 (n. 23), 82 (n. 28), 87 (n. 7), 95 (n. 12), 95 (n. 12), 98 (n. 26), 100 (n. 45), 224 (n. 20), 234 (n. 43), Appendix B1.

Catalogues

Gardthausen, V.: Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford 1886, 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.

Author Maria Tomadaki

Copyright

Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters,
Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen