Göttinger Septuaginta

Beta

Ra 1882

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinaiticus gr. 259. N^o diktyon: 58634.

GA Number: 1240.

s. XII | Parchment, 277 ff., 1 col., 34 lines per page. | Minuscule (Minuscule of Provincial area) Cf . Weitzmann - Galavaris (1990: 127); Majuscule (Auszeichnungs-Majuskel). | Provenance: Unknown. | Owners: Makarios, kathigoumenos of St. Marina monastery in Selyvria f. 216v, Ownership note, Year 1567 f. 277v.

Greek Psalter; New Testament; Liturgica. | The psalms begin with a rich decorative frieze. The other works also feature decorative headbands with geometric or phytomorphic motifs. The initial letters are decorated; each psalm's titles and each verse's initial letters are rubricated in red. Folios 105-116v were added later. | Text-type: L.

Content
1r–54r	Ps 1-150
	002r Epigram
54r	Ps 151
54v–56r	Od 1
56r–56v	Od 2
56v–57r	Od 3
57r	Od 4
57r	Od 5
57r–57v	Od 6
57v–58r	Od 7
58r–58v	Od 8
58v	Od 9

Bibliography

Cassin, M.: “Fragments d'un manuscrit de Basile en majuscule. Histoire des textes et histoire des livres”, Byzantion 89 (2019), 59–90, 62–63.

Catalogues

Bernabò, M.: “L’illustrazione del Vecchio Testamento e la rovina dei manoscritti”, in Bernabò, M. (ed.), Voci dell'Oriente. Miniature e testi classici da Bisanzio alla Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze 2011, pp. 143–178: 143.

Gardthausen, V.: Catalogus codicum graecorum Sinaiticorum, Oxford, 1886, 54.

Gregory, C. R.: Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900–1909, vol. III, 1136.

Gregory, C. R.: Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900–1909, vol. I, 248, 285, 307.

Hatch, W. H. P.: The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament at Mount Sinai, Paris 1932, Plate XLIV.

Kamil, M.: Catalogue of all manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai, Wiesbaden 1970, 71 (nr. 284).

Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014, 247, Appendix B1.

Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 292.

Sarris, N.: Classification of finishing tools in Greek bookbinding: establishing links from the Library of St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, PhD Thesis, London, University of the Arts, 2010, III, pp. 142, 162.

Weitzmann, K. – Galavaris, G.: The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, Volume One: From the ninth to the twelfth Century, Princeton 1990, 126–128 (nr. 47).

Author Margherita Matera

Copyright

Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters,
Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen