Beta

Ra 1548

Kraków, Jagiellonian Library, Berolinensis gr. Qu. 43 (olim “acc. 9328”). No diktyon: 9212.
GA Number: 257.
s. XIV | Parchment (Very white and thin), 116 ff., 245 × 180 mm  Binding size: 252 × 175; Ruling Type: 14 D1; Original binding in dark brown leather with metallic furniture and clasps (text area: 170 x 110 mm  Line spacing: 4 mm), 1 col., 39 lines per page. |  Minuscule. | Scribe: Ἰωσὴφ ἱεροδιακόνου  VGH 221.P. | Provenance: “Ex Bibl. Regia Berolin.”(ff. 2r, 116v). The manuscript was acquired in Sinai by Heinrich Brugsch in 1866.  cf. de Boor, p. 193. According to Gregory, Heinrich Brugsch brought it from Cairo to Berlin (cf. Textkritik, p. 285)
Greek Psalter; Acta apostolorum. | There are rubricated titles and initials, and some decorative headbands. From Psalm 50 to 77, and in all nine Odes, there are empty spaces that should have been filled with miniatures. Some ancient restorations are still visible to the ff. 42-44, 67, 83 and 98. The indication of the quires (from α ′ to η ′) is not constantly included.Text-type: L.
Content
1r Troparion and Kontakion and other notes by a later hand cf. de Boor, p. 191
1v Notes from later hands cf. de Boor, p. 191
2r–35v Ps 1-151
35v Od 1
36r–v Od 2
36v–37r Od 3
37r–v Od 4
37v Od 5
37v Od 6
37v–38r Od 7
38r–v Od 8
38r–39r Od 9
39r Subscription Ἐτελεώθη διὰ χειρὸς ἐμοῦ ἰωσὴφ ἁμαρτωλοῦ. Τάχα καὶ ἱεροδιακόνου
39v Notes from later hands: sayings about the ἅγιος ἄρτος cf. de Boor, p. 191
40r–44r Index of Epistolic Pericopes Κεφάλαια τῶν πράξεων ἐπιστολῶν τοῦ μεγάλου ἀποστόλου παύλου …
44v Blank
45r–116r Acta apostolorum cf. de Boor, pp. 192-193
116r Subscription in Cryptography Ἐτελεώθη διὰ χειρὸς ἐμοῦ ἰωσὴφ ἱεροδιακόνου
116v Blank
Bibliography
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1 (“Lost”). 
Pietrobelli, A.: "Un manuscript perdu de Galien retrouvé à Cracovie", Journal of History of Medicine and Medical Humanities 32/1 (2020), 295–310, 306.
Catalogues
Beneševič, V.: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in Monte Sina asservantur, t. I., Sankt–Peterburg, 1911, 644. 
Gregory, C. R.:Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900–1909, I: 285, no. 302; III: 1101 (“257”). 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 29. 
Soden, H.: Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, Vol. 1.1, Berlin 1911, 234 (“a466”). 
Studemund, W./Cohn, L./de Boor, C.: Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin. Vol. I et II, Codices ex bibliotheca Meermanniana Phillippici graeci nunc Berolinenses, I–II, Die Handschriften–Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin 1890, 1897, Vol. II (1897), 191–93 (no. 345). 
Wattenbach. W.: Schrifttafeln zur Geschichte der griechischen Schrift und zum Studium der griechischen Palaeographie, I, Berlin 1876, Facsimile Pl. 18.