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.  f. 157 before f. 153, 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–2v The Lord’s Prayer, the Nicene Creed
3r–146v Ps 1-122:2
147r Od 2:43b-3:3b
147r–150r Od 3:3b-Od 4
150r–151r Od 5
151r–151v Od 6
151v–152v Od 7:26-7:41a
153r–153v Od 11
153v–155r Od 12
155r Od 13
155r–156r Od 14
156r–156v Lenten 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–157v Od 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.