Beta

Ra 1205

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, 212. No diktyon: 58587.
GA Number: l 846.
s. IX: Scriptura superior (VII century according to Clark 1952:3); s. VI: Scriptura inferior | Parchment (Scriptura inferior); Palimpsest (Scriptura superior), 114 ff., 145 × 117 mm, 1 col., 20/24 lines per page Scriptura superior. Majuscule (Ogivale inclinata); Majuscule (Biblica). Provenance: Sinai.
Gospels and Epistles (Scriptura superior), Psalms (Scriptura inferior). | Defective at the beginning (first folios of the first quire) and the end. The manuscript appears to have been written on older palimpsest parchments. The scriptura inferior runs parallel to the superior. Some folios are upside down. Starting from f. 44v, there are notes in Arabic with some glosses in Greek written in an informal way. The quires are indicated with a cross in the upper margin. Crosses in a similar shape are used to indicate the beginning of a new pericope. The title of the pericopes is written in lighter ink.
Content
1r–98vGospelsScriptura superior
99r–114vEpistlesScriptura superior
24vPs 1:1-4Scriptura inferior
24rPs 1:4-2:2Scriptura inferior
43rPs 3:5-4:2Scriptura inferior
43vPs 4:2-7Scriptura inferior
46rPs 4:7-5:3Scriptura inferior
46vPs 5:4-9Scriptura inferior
109rPs 7:9-14Scriptura inferior
109vPs 7:14-8:3Scriptura inferior
30vPs 8:9-9:6Scriptura inferior
7vPs 9:12-16Scriptura inferior
45rPs 9:26-?Scriptura inferior
2vPs 11:5-9Scriptura inferior
27rPs 11:9-12:5Scriptura inferior
14vPs 15:7-16:1Scriptura inferior
15rPs 16:1-6Scriptura inferior
18rPs 16:13-17:3Scriptura inferior
18vPs 17:3-8Scriptura inferior
4vPs 17: 8-10Scriptura inferior
4rPs 17:13-19Scriptura inferior
5vPs 17:19-25Scriptura inferior
5rPs 17:25-32Scriptura inferior
11rPs 17:45-51Scriptura inferior
39rPs 18:12-19:2Scriptura inferior
12vPs 19:9-20:5Scriptura inferior
28vPs 20:6-11Scriptura inferior
1rPs 21:5-12Scriptura inferior
1vPs 21:13-16Scriptura inferior
47rPs 21:24-28Scriptura inferior
42vPs 21:28-22:2Scriptura inferior
8vPs 23: 8-?Scriptura inferior
29rps 24:8-14Scriptura inferior
13rPs 24:15-21Scriptura inferior
16vPs 26:1-5Scriptura inferior
3rPs 26:5-9Scriptura inferior
35rPs 27:2-5Scriptura inferior
35vPs 27:6-28:2Scriptura inferior
36vPs 28:2-9Scriptura inferior
36rPs 28:9-29:6Scriptura inferior
37vPs 29:6-11Scriptura inferior
37rPs 29:12-30:4Scriptura inferior
6vPs 30:10-15Scriptura inferior
9rPs 30:16-21Scriptura inferior
21vPs 31:7-32: 1Scriptura inferior
22vPs 32:2-9Scriptura inferior
26rPs ? - 33:2Scriptura inferior
26vPs 33:3-9Scriptura inferior
32vPs 33:17-34:1Scriptura inferior
25rPs 34:1-7Scriptura inferior
31rPs 34:14-?Scriptura inferior
19vPs 34:27-35:5Scriptura inferior
19rPs 35:5-11Scriptura inferior
38vPs 36:10-16Scriptura inferior
101rPs 356:16-22Scriptura inferior
40vPs 36:34-39Scriptura inferior
41rPs 38:4-12Scriptura inferior
48vPs 39:13-40:2Scriptura inferior
23rPs 40:3-12Scriptura inferior
57rPs 43:9-?Scriptura inferior
106rPs 49:2-9Scriptura inferior
106vPs 49:10-17Scriptura inferior
105rPs 50:20-51:6Scriptura inferior
82vPs 51:10-52:2Scriptura inferior
34vPs 52:54-53:3Scriptura inferior
52vPs ?-53:4Scriptura inferior
54vPs 54:20-24Scriptura inferior
113vP 54:24-55:7Scriptura inferior
113rPs 55:7-12Scriptura inferior
103vPs 55:13-56:4Scriptura inferior
103rPs 56:4-10Scriptura inferior
102rPs 56:10-57:6Scriptura inferior
108rPs 57:6-11Scriptura inferior
50vPs 58:6-12Scriptura inferior
49rPs 59:3-?Scriptura inferior
69rPs 61:3-12Scriptura inferior
68vPs 62:12-?Scriptura inferior
56vPs 64:12-?Scriptura inferior
100vPs 65:17-66:5Scriptura inferior
100rPs 66:6-67:2Scriptura inferior
74vPs 68:11-?Scriptura inferior
72vPs 70:2-8Scriptura inferior
66vPs 70:24-71:5Scriptura inferior
111vPs 71:11-16Scriptura inferior
110rPs 71:16-19Scriptura inferior
71rPs 72:7-13Scriptura inferior
65rPs 73:2-8Scriptura inferior
89rPs 74:4-7Scriptura inferior
70vPs 76:7-15Scriptura inferior
76vPs 76:15-77:1Scriptura inferior
76rPs 77:2-7Scriptura inferior
77vPs 77:7-13Scriptura inferior
77rPs 77:13-20Scriptura inferior
67rPs 77:20-27Scriptura inferior
96vPs 77:40-45Scriptura inferior
84vPs 79:9-14Scriptura inferior
85vPs 80:2-8Scriptura inferior
104vPs 84:5-10Scriptura inferior
98vPs 87:6-?Scriptura inferior
75vPs 87:18-88:5Scriptura inferior
78rPs ?-88:15Scriptura inferior
107rPs 89:14-90:2Scriptura inferior
81rPs ?-90:15Scriptura inferior
Bibliography
Galadza, D.: “Two Greek, Ninth–Century Sources of the Jerusalem Lectionary: Sinai Gr. 212 and Sinai Gr. N.E. MГ 11”, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata III/11 (2014), 79–111.
Harlfinger, D.: “Beispiele der Maiuscula ogivalis inclinata vom Sinai und aus Damaskus”, in D'Agostino, M. (ed.), Alethes Philia. Studi in onore di Giancarlo Prato (Collectanea, 23), Spoleto 2010, 465, 467, 470, pl. II.
Parpulov, G.: “The Codicology of ninth–century Greek manuscripts”, Semitica et Classica 8 (2015), 165–170, 166 nr. 11.
Catalogues
Clark K. W.: Checklist of Manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai. Microfilmed for the Library of Congress, 1950, Washington 1952, 3. 
Fraenkel, D.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments von Alfred Rahlfs. Bd. I,1 Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert (Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Supplementum I/1), Göttingen 2004, 359.
Gardthausen, V.: Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford 1886, 42.
Gregory, G. R.: Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, vol. 1, Leipzig 1900, 447.
Gregory, G. R.: Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, vol. 3, Leipzig 1909, 1245. 
Kamil, M.: Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970, 70, nr. 237.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 292.