Beta

Ra 1702

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. E. 1. 5 (Misc. 19). No diktyon: 46985.
s. XVI | Paper, 307 ff., 1 col., 30-38 lines per page  The number of the lines changes according to the scribe. |  Minuscule (Renaissance Hands). | Scribes: Βερναρδῖνος ὁ Σάνδρος ὁ Κρεμοναῖος (s. XVI)  A, Gentianus Hervetus (1499-1584)  B, Βερνάρδος ὁ Φελικιανὸς (ca. 1490-1552)  C, Κωνσταντῖνος Μεσοβώτης (s. XVI)  D, Unknown  E, Δημήτριος Ζῆνος (s. XVI)  F. | Owner: Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558)  Archbishop of Canterbury. After his death, all of his manuscripts were acquired by New College (Oxford). Cf. Woolfson, Reginald Pole, 79-95.
Catena in Psalmos. | The codex represents the second part of a manuscript divided into three volumes of which the first is Ms. Ra 1713, while the third volume has been lost. Ra 1702 was written by six different scribes, five of which were identified in 1931 by Lobel. The names of the exegetes are rubricated; there are some marginal annotations; on ff. 119r-134v (Scribe C) and 289r-306v (Scribe F) the initial letters are decorated rubricated. | Text-type: L.
Content
1r–306vPs 68:8–103:14 With some small lacunae: “On Remarque qu’il existe une lacune des quelques versets entre le deux tomes […]”, Dorival, Les chaînes exégétiques, I, p. 246 (nr. 9)
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Catalogues
Coxe, H., O., Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima, Oxonii 1853, 630 (Misc. 19). 
Karo G., – Lietzmann, H., Catenarum graecarum catalogus, Göttingen 1902 (Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), 65.
Madan, F., A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, III, Oxford 1895, 312 (nr. 2328). 
Mühlenberg, E., Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenüberlieferung, III, Berlin–New York 1978 (Patristische Texte un Studien), 23–25.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 164.