Beta
Ra 174
London, British Library, Harley 5786. No diktyon: 39681.
s. XII/1
| Parchment, 173 ff., 315 × 235
mm,
3 col., 28 lines per page.
|
Minuscule (“Scrittura di Reggio”) Greek text; Minuscule (Late Caroline minuscule) Latin text; Minuscule (Eastern-type hand dotted according to the Maghribī system) Arabic text.
| Provenance: Sicily.
Psalms in Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
| It is uncertain if this Psalter originally contained the Odes: fol. 173v, which is now its last page, was left blank by the scribe. The manuscript is closely related to the trilingual praxapostolos GA 460 (diktyon 69482), which is written by a different Greek hand but is of very similar size (280 × 230 mm), layout (28 lines of text per page), and date (s. XII/1). Decorated initials in red ink.
| Text-type: L.
| Content | |
| 1r–173r | Ps 1-151 |
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