Beta
Ra 1205
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.
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.
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.