Beta

Ra 1201

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinait. gr. 59. No diktyon: 58434.
ibid., NE gr. MΓ 019. No diktyon: 61057.
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Petropol. gr. 837 (Granstrem 78). No diktyon: 57907.
s. X–XI  According to Gardthausen, the script is dated to the 11th century and imitates an older majuscule. | Parchment, 157 ff., 1 col., 19-21 lines per page. |  Majuscule (Late uncial); Majuscule (Maiuscola liturgica (Title Ps 1)). | Provenance: Unknown.
Greek Psalter. | Georgi Parpulov states manuscript is dismembered between the Sinaiticus NE gr. MΓ 019 and the Petropolitanus gr. 837. Titles and initials letters are rubricated. The are scribblings in Arabic on the front pastedown.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–2vThe Lord’s Prayer, the Nicene Creed
3r–146vPs 1-122:2
147rOd 2:43b-3:3b
147r–150rOd 3:3b-Od 4
150r–151rOd 5
151r–151vOd 6
151v–152vOd 7:26-7:41a
153r–153vOd 11
153v–155rOd 12
155rOd 13
155r–156rOd 14
156r–156vLenten Hymn of Great Compline” cf. Isaiah 8:9-9:6 Inc: Μεθ’ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεὸς, γνῶτε ἔθνη, καὶ ἡττᾶσθε· ἐπακούσατε ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς
157r–157vOd 9:49b-9:79b + Od 11 Title
Bibliography
Meesters, R. – Praet, R.– Bernard, F. – Demoen, K.: “Makarios’ cycle of epigrams on the Psalms Bodleian Baroccianus 194”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109 (2016) 837–860 (NE gr. MΓ 019), 842.
Catalogues
Gardthausen, V., Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford, 1886 (Sinait. gr. 59), 14. 
Granstrem, E. E.: “Katalog greceskich rukopisej leningradskich chranilišc: 1, rukopisi: IV–IX veka”, Vizantijskij vremennik 16 (1959) 216–243 (Petropol. gr. 837 ), 236 (nr. 78). 
Kamil, M.: Catalogue of all manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970, 64 (nr. 59). 
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014, 142, Appendix B1. 
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. 59), 289.