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Ra 1188

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, gr. 31. No diktyon: 58406.
s. IX | Parchment, 269 ff., 160 × 115 mm  160 × 120 (Rahlfs), 160 × 110 (Gardthausen), 159 × 128 (Kamil), 160 × 115 (Harlfinger), 1 col., 24-25 lines per page. |  Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale inclinata). | Provenance: Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine.
Psalms and Odes. | Kamil dates the manuscript to s. VIII–IX. | Text-type: L with few readings from U and S.
Content
1r Blank
1v–2v The Nicene Creed
2v Iambic verses on the “symbol of faith” see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24248
2v–3r The Lord’s Prayer
3r Iambic verses see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24290
3r–4r Iambic verses by Gregory of Nazianzus see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/6636
4v–241r Ps 1-151
241r Iambic verses on the Psalter see DBBE: https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/24567
241r–243v Ode 1
243v–249r Ode 2
249r–250v Ode 3
250v–253r Ode 4
253r–254v Ode 5
254v–255v Ode 6
255v–258r Ode 7
258v–261r Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
261r–263r Ode 9
263r Ode 13
263v The vesperal hymn Φῶς ἱλαρὸν
263v–265r Ode 14
265r–266r The Hymn of the Great Compline “Μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός”, cf. Isaiah 8:9-18
266r–267r Makarismoi
267r–269v Ode 12
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, 467, 469, Pl. VIIIb. 
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 82 (n. 28), 83 (n. 35, 36), 85 (n. 45), 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. The manuscript preserves its original binding and the indication of the quires is still visible: <βʹ> – λδʹ, 287. 
Author Maria Tomadaki
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Publication Date Jul 31, 2023
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