Beta

Ra 1420

Athens, National Library of Greece, 45 (Kremos III). No diktyon: 2341.
s. XII/XIII | Parchment, 368 ff., 270 × 200 mm  Text area: 187 × 112, 1 col., 26 lines per page. |  Minuscule (It has some features of the corsiva stillizata arrotondata minuscule.). | Owner: Παρθένιος ἱερομόναχος ἐκ Πραστοῦ, see Kremos (1876: 12)..
Catena on the Psalms. | The catena incorporates the text of the Psalms, which is marked with diacritical signs. It consists of excerpts from Theodorete, Eusebius of Caesarea, Didymus the Blind, Hesychius, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodore of Antioch, Asterius, Basil of Ceasarea, Athanasius of Alexandria, Apollinarius and John Chrysostom. It also contains hexaplaric notes, see for instance the references to Aquila (f. 149r) and to Symmachus and Aquila (ff. 243r, 359r). Some folios in the middle of the manuscript have been lost, but it is not known how many are lacking. Parpulov (Appendix B1) dates the manuscript to the 12th century, Richard (1956: XVIII) and Aussedat (2010: 430) to the 12th/13th centuries, whereas Sakkelion (1892: 8), Rahlfs (1914: 6), Karo-Lietzmann (1902) and Vanderschelden (2018: 407) favour a 13th century date. Richard bases his edition of the Asterius’ fragments of the catena type III on this manuscript, as well as on Marc. gr. 17 and on Par. gr. 139. Aussedat (2010: 430) argues that the marginal catena of Par. gr. 139 has been transcribed as main text in EBE 45 and it has been recopied in the West in many manuscripts during the 16th century. She does not, however, specify these manuscripts.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–368v Catena on the Ps 3:3a – Ps 40:4b. Catena Type III Karo-Lietzmann (CPG C 16)
Bibliography
Aussedat, M.: “Les deux types de chaînes exégétiques sur le livre de Jérémie: une mise en page adaptée au contenu?”, in A. Bravo García, I. Pérez Martín (ed), The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon: Three Hundred Years of Studies on Greek Handwriting. Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid – Salamanca, 15–20 September 2008), Bibliologia 31, Turnhout, Brepols, 2010, 427–436, 863–867, 430.
Dorival, G.: Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, I, Leuven 1986, 48, 245.
Karo, G., I. Lietzmann, “Catenarum graecarum catalogus” in Nachrichten der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Philologisch–historische Klasse), Göttingen 1902, 27. 
Kinzig, W.: In search of Asterius. Studies on the authorship of the Homilies on the Psalms, Göttingen 1990, 75.
Mühlenberg, E., Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenüberlieferung, Band I, Berlin–New York 1978, XVI, XXVI–XXVIII.
Mühlenberg, E., Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenüberlieferung, Band III, Berlin–New York 1978, 23–24.
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Richard, M., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt. Accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Symbolae Osloenses fasc. Suppl. 16, Oslo 1956, XVIII.
Vanderschelden, L., “Two Alleged Witnesses of the Catena of the Paris Psalter: Vaticani graeci 617 and 1519”, Sacris Erudiri 57 (2018), 403–437, 407, 409 passim. 
Catalogues
Kremos, G.: Κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἐθνικῆς καὶ τῆς τοῦ Πανεπιστημίου Βιβλιοθήκης ἀλφαβητικὸς καὶ περιγραφικὸς μετ᾽ εἰκόνων καὶ πανομοιοτύπων κατ᾽ ἐπιστήμας κατατεταγμένων (Θεολογία 1), Athens 1876, 10–12. 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 6. 
Sakkelion, I. and Sakkelion A.: Κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἐθνικῆς Βιβλιοθήκης τῆς Ἑλλάδος, Athens 1892, 8.