Beta

Ra 1661

London, British Library, Harley 5541. No diktyon: 39506.
s. XV/XVI | Parchment, 269 ff., 140 × 100 mm  Text area: 970 × 590, 1 col., 24 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Scholarly hand). | Scribe: Δημήτριος Δαμιλᾶς (s. XV–XVI). | Owner: Giorgio Antonio Vespucci (ca. 1434-1514).
Psalms and Odes. | Rahlfs dates the manuscript to the 14th c. The titles and the initials are written in red ink. There is a decorated headpiece on f. 1r.Text-type: L.
Content
1–70v Horologion
71r–74v Apolytikia, tit. “ἀπολυτίκια τῆς ἑβδομάδος ὅλης”.
75r–122v Liturgical Menologion, tit. “Ἀρχὴ σὺν θεῶ ἁγίω τοῦ μηνολογίου· περιέχοντος πάσαν ἀκολουθίαν:· ἤτοι τὰ ἀπολυτικοκόντακα τοῦ ὅλου ἑνιαυτοῦ τῶν τε ἁγίων ἁπάντων· καὶ τῶν δεσποτικῶν ἑορτῶν:·
123r–144v Apolytikia from the Triodion, tit: “ἀρχὴ τῶν ἀπολυτικοντακίων: ἀπὸ τοῦ τριωδίου: κυριακὴ τοῦ τελώνου, καὶ τοῦ φαρισαίου”. ff. 134r-141v: Akathistos hymn
145r–244r Ps 1-151 Two monostichs are used as titles of the Psalter: “ἁρμονίης ἱερῆς μελιηδέα ἅσματα Δαυίδ”, “Δαυὶδ προφήτου καὶ βασιλέως μέλος”
244r–245r Ode 1
245r–247v Ode 2
247v–248r Ode 3
248r–249r Ode 4
249r–250r Ode 5
250r Ode 6
250r–251v Ode 7
251v–253r Daniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
253r–253v Ode 9
254r–255v The hymn “Χαῖρε κεχαριτωμένη Μαρία”, the Lord’s Prayer, the Nicene Creed, the prayer “Xαῖρε δέσποινα μήτερ τοῦ ἐλέους”, Ode 14 and other prayers.
256r–269r Basil of Caesarea, Treatise addressed to young men on now they might derive benefit from Greek Literature PG 31:564-589
Bibliography
Omont, H.: “Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum”, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884), 314–350, 332. 
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Pattie, T. S., McKendrick, S.: Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the British Library, I, London 1999, 104.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), Berlin 1914, 109.