Beta

Ra 1716

Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, Ms. 4. No diktyon: 48872.
Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis 353. No diktyon: 55441.
s. XII/2 | Parchment, 294 ff., 218 × 165 mm, 1 col., 33-34 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Epsilon style). | Owner: The manuscript is said to have belonged to Queen Constance, wife of Henry VI, who, according to tradition, was a nun in the Basilian monastery of S. Salvatore in Palermo (see Martini 1893: 141).
Illustrated manuscript. Four folios of the manuscript are nowadays kept in the Free Library in Philadelphia.
Content
1r–229vNew Testament without the Apocalypse
230r–286vPs 1–149:7
Bibliography
Cutler, A., The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris 1984, 61–63 (no. 38).
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1.
Catalogues
Martini, E., Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane, vol. I, Milano 1893, 141–146.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 180.