Beta

Ra 191

St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ф. № 906 (Gr.) 064 (Granstrem 120, olim: Coisl. 188). No diktyon: 57134.
a. 994 | Parchment, 223 ff., 253 × 196 mm  partly 120 × 105 mmm, 1 col., 45 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Scholarly script, which is inclined to the right). | Provenance: The manuscript was stolen in 1791 from the Bibliotheca Coisliniana by P. Dubrovsky, secretary of the Russian Embassy in Paris, who brought it to Saint Petersburg.
Psalms and Odes with marginal catena. | The catena on the Psalms contains excerpts from Diodore the Theologian, Origen, John Chrysostom, Hesychius, Theodoret, Athanasios, Cyril of Alexandria, Didymus, Eusebius of Ceasarea, Maximus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Ceasarea, Isidore of Pelusium, Gregory of Nyssa, John of Sardeis, Severus, Arethas, Olympiodorus and Anastasios of Nicaea.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–199v Ps 1–151 with catena CPG C30; Catena type VII (Karo-Lietzmann)
199v–201r Ode 1 with catena
201v–206v Ode 2 with catena
206v–207v Ode 3 with catena
208r–210r Ode 4 with catena
210r–211v Ode 5 with catena
212r–212v Ode 6 with catena
212v–215r Ode 7 with catena
215r–216v Ode 8 with catena
216v–218r Ode 9 with catena
218v–219v Ode 11 with catena
219v–220v Ode 12 with catena
221r The Nicene Creed
221r–221v The cherubic hymn
221v–222v Text on the calculation of the indictions and of the Easter date (Easter table).
222v Fragment consisting of hymns’ titles.
Bibliography
Dorival, G.: Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, III, Leuven 1992, 32–89, 96–103.
Karo, G./Lietzmann, H.: Catenarum graecarum catalogus (Nachrichten der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), Göttingen 1902, 49. 
Orsini, P.: “Γράφειν οὐκ εἰς κάλλος, Le minuscole greche informali del X secolo”, Rivista della fondazione centro italiano di studi sull’ alto medioevo (2006), 549–589, 578.
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 58 (n. 39), 62 (n. 69). 
Catalogues
Devreesse, R.: Catalogue des manuscrits grecs. II, le fonds Coislin, Paris 1962, 163. 
Granstrem, E., “Каталог греческих рукописей ленинградских хранилищ. Вып. 2: Рукописи X в.”, 18 (1961) 254–274, 256. 
Montfaucon, B.: Bibliotheca Coisliniana, olim Segueriana, Paris 1715, 244. 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 223.