Beta

Ra 1784

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 695. No diktyon: 67326.
s. XIV; a. 1341: ff. 9r-134v | Paper, 268 ff., 220 × 140 mm, 2 col., 32 lines per page. |  Minuscule. | Scribes: Μανουήλ Βεστάρχης. He completed the Psalter in the year 1341  ff. 9r-134v, At least ten different contemporary hands. | Provenance: Southern Italy?. | Owners: Νικόλαος (14th c.?)  see the possession note on f. 257v, Παῦλος  see the note on f. f. 161r, Γεώργης Κοντορούλης  see the possession note on f. 257v.
Psalms and Odes in Greek and Latin. | The Psalter is distinguished by its decorated initials of Western style.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–5v Erotapokriseis: questions and answers about the Holy Trinity.
6r–8r Gnomic Verses
8v Blank
9r–124r Ps 1-150 Tit. Δαυὶδ προφήτου καὶ βασιλέως μέλος
124v–125r Ode 11
125r Ode 3
125v–126v Ode 1
126v–127v Ode 4
127v–130r Ode 2
130r–130v Ode 8:57-87
130v–131r Ode 9: Prayer of Zachariah
131r Ode 9: Prayer of the Holy Virgin
131r–131v Ode 13
131v–132r The hymn Te Deum laudamus
132r–132v The hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo in Greek and Latin.
132v–133r The Lord’s Prayer in Greek and Latin
133r–134v The Athanasian Creed in Greek and Latin
135r–137r George Hamartolos, Cronicle 1, 20-22
137v–138v Erotapokriseis
139r–140v Epistle of Gregory IX to Germanos II. Translation in Greek of the Latin text.
141r–161r Life of Aesop
161v–164v Treatise on the seven Ecumenical Synods
165r–189v Aesop’s Fables in an alphabetical order
189v–190r Scribbling
191r–191v Blank
192r–206v Physiologos
207r–214r Michael Psellos, Interpretation of vernacular sayings inc. “οἱ τέσσαρεις τοὺς τέσσαροις (sic) καὶ ἐνίκησεν ἡ θύρα”
214v Prayer to Theotokos by a later hand
215r–219v Prayers attributed to John of Chrysostom
220r–225v Pseudo-Athanasius, Questions and Answers adressed to the Dux Antiochus
226r–227v Medical fragment from Galen
228r–241v Ephraim the Syrian, Sermon to Joseph
241v–257v Life of St. Mary of Egypt
258r–262r Oracles of Leo the Wise
262v–264v Cyprian, Prayers against magic
265r–265v Fragment of an exorcism
266r–268r Dodecasyllables on the passion of Christ
268v Easter table
Bibliography
Radiciotti, P.: “Manoscritti digrafici grecolatini e latinogreci nell'alto Medioevo”, Römische historische Mitteilungen 40 (1998), 49–118, 116 (149).
Turyn, A.: Codices Graeci Vaticani saeculis XIII et XIV scripti annorumque notis instructi (Codices e Vaticanis selecti 28), Vatican City 1964, 140–142. 
Catalogues
De’ Cavalieri, Fr.: Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum graecorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Brussels 1899, 23. 
Devreesse, R.: Codices Vaticani Graeci, III: Codices 604–866, Vatican City 1950, 169–172.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 253.