Beta

Ra 1198

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinait. gr. 48. No diktyon: 58423.
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Petropol. gr. 267 (Granstrem 211). No diktyon: 57339.
1074 | Unknown writing support (Paper); Unknown writing support (Parchment), 220 ff. (Sinait. gr. 48); 3 ff. (Petropol. gr. 267 ), 1 col., 18 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Scholarly hand). | Provenance: Unknown. | Owner: Porfirij Uspenskij (Petropol. gr. 267 ).
Greek Psalter. | The manuscript is defective at the beginning. It contains 39 illustrations which recall those of the manuscript Vitr. 34. 3, of the Benaki Museum (cf. Weyl Carr-Cutler, 1976: 282, 300, 301 note nr. 22, 302 note nr. 27-28, 322). Between f. 93v and f. 94r, the manuscript was restored with a parchment fragment containing Arabic characters. The titles and letters are rubricated. Beneševič recognised the folios of Petropol. gr. 267 as belonging to Sin. gr. 48 (cf. Weitzmann, K., - Galavaris, G., 1990:83). | Text-type: L.
Content
1r–43v (Sinait. gr. 48) Ps 1-36:10b
1 (Petropol. gr. 267) Ps 36:11-21a
44r–47v (Sinait. gr. 48) Ps 36:21b-37:21b
2 (Petropol. gr. 267) Ps 37:21c-38:10
48r–66v (Sinait. gr. 48) Ps 38:11a-52:12b
3 (Petropol. gr. 267) Ps 52:2a-53:9b
67r–192r (Sinait. gr. 48) Ps 54-150
192r–193v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 1
193v–197v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 2
197v–198v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 3
199r–199v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 4
199v–201v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od5
202r–202v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 6
202v–205r (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 7
205r–206v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 8
206–207r (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 9
207v–209r (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 11
209r–210v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 12
210v–211v (Sinait. gr. 48) Od 14
212r–213v (Sinait. gr. 48) Prayers
214r–215r (Sinait. gr. 48) Basilius Caesariensis, Epistulae (173 et 22). CPG 2900
215v–217v (Sinait. gr. 48) Nonnus (pseudo) abbas, Scholia mythologica CPG 3011
218r–219r (Sinait. gr. 48) Blank
219v–220v (Sinait. gr. 48) Tabulae paschales, ab anno 1075 ad annum 1097
Catalogues
Beneševič,V.: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in Monte Sina asservantur, t. I., Sankt–Peterburg 1911 (Sinait. gr. 48 + Petropol. gr. 267), 609. 
Bernabò, M.: Voci dell'Oriente. Miniature e testi classici da Bisanzio alla Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze 2011 (Sinait. gr. 48), 143.
Gardthausen, V.: Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford, 1886 (Sinait. gr. 48), 12. 
Granstrem, E. E.: “Katalog greceskich rukopisej leningradskich chranilišc: 3, rukopisi: XI veka”, Vizantijskij vremennik 19 (1961) 194–239 (Petropol. gr. 2687), 207–208 (nr. 211). 
Harlfinger, D. – Reinsch, D. – Sonderkamp, J. – Prato, G.: Specimina Sinaitica. Die datierten griechischen Handschriften des Katharinen–Klosters auf dem Berge Sinai 9. bis 12. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1983 (Sinait. gr. 48 + Petropol. gr. 267), 35–36.
Kamil, M.: Catalogue of all manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970 (Sinait. gr. 48), 64 (nr. 48). 
Lake, K. – Lake, S.: Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, vol. VI, Boston (Massachusetts) 1934–1939 (Petropol. gr. 267), 16 (nr. 255). 
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014 (Sinait. gr. 48 + Petropol. gr. 267), 55, 132. 
Pérez Martín, I.: “Maxime Planude et le 'Diophantus Matritensis' (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, ms. 4678): un paradigme de la récupération des textes anciens dans la 'Renaissance paléologue’”, in Byzantion 76 (2006) 433–462 (Sinait. gr. 48), 439 (note nr. 27).
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914 (Sinait. gr. 48 + Petropol. gr. 267), 229, 288.
Weitzmann, K., – Galavaris, G.:  The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. Volume One: From the ninth to the twelfth Century, Princeton 1990 (Petropol. gr. 267), 83–87 (nr. 30).
Weyl Carr, A. – Cutler, A., “The Psalter Benaki 34.3. An unpublished illuminated manuscript from the family 2400”, Revue des études byzantines 34 (1976) 281–324 (Sinait. gr. 48), 282, 300, 301 (note nr. 22), 302 (note nr. 27–28), 322.