Beta
Ra 1711
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. gr. 63. No diktyon: 47613.
s. XIII–XIV
s. XIII ex.: ff. 1r–94r; s. XIII–XIV: ff. 94r–102v; s. XIII: ff. 102v–108r
| Parchment, 108 ff.,
2 col., ff. 001r-122v (c.I): 29; ff. 001r-094v (c.II): 29; ff. 094v-122v (c.II): 40; ff. 123r-134v (c.I-c.II): 30 lines per page.
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Minuscule (Latin script: Gotica) ff. 001r-122v (I column); Minuscule (Greek script: Mimetic script) ff. 001r-094v (II column); Minuscule (Latin script: Cancelleresca) ff. 094v-122v (II column); Minuscule (Greek script: Scholarly hands) ff. 123r-134v (I and II column).
| Provenance: Matteo Luigi Canonici Collection. After Canonici’s death, in 1805, the entire collection passes to his brother Giuseppe. The Collection was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1817. Cf. Mortara. A., Catalogo dei manoscritti italiani che sotto la denominazione di Codici canoniciani italici si conservano nella biblioteca Bodleiana a Oxford, Oxford 1854.
| Owners:
Giuseppe Canonici (d. 1807),
Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1805)
Matteo Luigi Canonici. See also here on him.
Psalms in Greek and Latin.
| Each Psalm begins with large initial letters (both in the Greek column and in the Latin one) fully decorated with complex phytomorphic motifs. Some marginal annotations in Greek are visible.
| Text-type: L.
Bibliography
Catalogues
Hunt, R.W. – Madan, F.: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the quarto series: with references to the Oriental and other manuscripts, vol. 4, Oxford 1897, 316 (nr. 18516).
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 171.
Online sources
- Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries Description