Beta

Ra 1190

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, gr. 33. No diktyon: 58408.
ibid., NE MΓ 33. No diktyon: 61071.
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, gr. 262. No diktyon: 57334.
s. IX | Parchment, 243 ff., 190 × 150 mm, 1 col., 19 lines per page. |  Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale inclinata); Majuscule (Maiuscola ogivale diritta)  Titles; f. 227r: scribal prayer. | Scribe: Solomon, deacon. | Provenance: Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine. | Owner: Bishop Porphyrius Uspensky (1804-1885)..
Psalms and Odes. | Currently, one folio from cod. Sinait. gr. 33, containing Ps 149:4b-Ps 150:6 and its colophon, belongs to cod. Petropol. RNB gr. 262 and another two folios from its B´ quaternion, containing fragments of Ps 5 and 9, belong to cod. Sinait. NE MΓ 33. On the identification of these two folios see Nikolopoulos (1999: 120). Rahlfs dated the manuscript to the 8th-9th centuries and Beneševič to the year 862. | Text-type: L with few readings from U and S.
Content
Ir–IIv (NE MΓ 33) Ps 5 and 9 (fragmentary)
1–227r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ps 5-Ps 149:1-4 The beginning of the Psalm 5 is illegible due to damage
IIIr–v (Petrop. gr. 262) Ps 149:4b-Ps 150:6
227r (Sinait. gr. 33) Scribal prayer
227r (Sinait. gr. 33) Bohairic prayer
228r–229v (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 1
229v–233v (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 2
233v–235r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 3
235r–237r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 4
237r–238r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 5
238r–239r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 6
239r–241r (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 7
241r–243r (Sinait. gr. 33) Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
243r–243v (Sinait. gr. 33) Ode 9:46-71b
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, 469, pl. Xa. 
Olivier, J. M., “Notule sur le «Psautier Uspenskij»”, Νέα Ῥώμη 8 (2011), 59–66, 59–60 (n. 2) (https://www.academia.edu/22925179).
Orsini, P.,:Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 15, Berlin–Boston 2019, 144 (n. 333). 
Parpulov, G. Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 78, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Beneševič, V.:Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in Monte Sina asservantur, t. I., St. Peterburg 1911, 607–608 (Information on Petropol. RNB gr. 262 (Beneševič no. 33)). 
Gardthausen, V.: Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford 1886, 10. 
Granstrem E.: “Каталог греческих рукописей ленинградских хранилищ. Вып. 1.: Рукописи IV–IX вв.”, Византийский временник 16 (1959), 216–243, 232 (Information on Petropol. RNB gr. 262). 
Kamil, M.: Catalogue of all manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970, 63. 
Nikolopoulos, P. et al.: The New Finds of Sinai, Athens 1999, 119–120, 147, pl. 9 (Information on Sinait. NE MΓ 33, Sinait. gr. 33 and Petropol. RNB gr. 262).
Rahlfs, A.:Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 229, 287. 
Author Maria Tomadaki
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