Beta

Ra 1916

Monte Cassino, Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Montecassino, BB 467 (olim 12). No diktyon: 43569.
VL Number: 310.
s. XII/XIII | Parchment, 252 pp., 360 × 240 mm, 2 (pp. 1–12); 5 (pp. 13–252) col., 50 lines per page. | Minuscule (Caroline minuscule).
The manuscript presents five versions of the Psalter written in five columns. 1) Romanum; 2) Gallicanum; 3) Hebraicum; 4) Graecum in Latin script; 5) versio Hieronymi. The versio Hieronymi in the fifth column is not complete, it ends with Psalm 118:164 after which the column remains empty; the fourth column is empty for Ps 151. The text of the first four columns derives from the [Bamberg Psalter] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1037); the text of the fifth column derives from the Cod. Cass. 434. The order of the Psalms.
Content
1–10 Incipit epistula sancti Hieronymi ad Sunniam et Fretelam quod de LXX interpretum editioni corrupta sunt (PL 22, 837–867)
10 Incipit origo prophetiae David regis psalmorum numero CL (PL 142, 46–48). Same as that of [Bamberg Psalter] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1037) and [Ra 1077] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1077)
11 Preface by Saint Jerome without title (PL 29, 121–124) Cf. Inguanez, p. 85
11 Praefatio S. Hieronymi In Librum Psalmorum Juxta Hebraicam Veritatem (PL 28, 1183-1186) Cf. Inguanez, p. 85
11–12 Carmen de Psalterii translationibus without title. Same as that of [Bamberg Psalter] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1037); [Ra 1077] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1077) and [Ra 8002] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_8002)
12 Versiculi Hieronimi presbiteri Cf. Inguanez, p. 85
12 Verses on the Psalter, without title. Same as those of [Bamberg Psalter] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1037) and [Ra 1077] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1077) Cf. Inguanez, p. 85
13–227 Ps 1–151
227–245 Od. The Odes respect the same order as that of [Bamberg Psalter] (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/catalogue/Ra_1037)
246–247 Prayers: Oratio dominica; Symbolum apostolorum Te Deum laudamus; Te decet laus; Symbolum Athanasianum. The Oratio dominica, the Symbolum apostolorum and the first part of Te Deum laudamus feature the Latin text and the Greek text in Latin characters. The rest of the prayers have exclusively the Latin text
248 Blank
249–252 Calendar added by a modern hand. It presents the date of death of Pope Clement III (1191)
Bibliography
Grégoire, R.: “Repertorium liturgicum italicum”, Studi medievali 3/9 (1968), 465–592, 537.
Inguanez, M.: “Una revisone medievale del Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos di S. Girolamo”, in Miscellanea Amelli: Scritti varii di letteratura ecclesiatica, Montecassino 1920, 77–92, 84–86. 
Radiciotti, P.: “Manoscritti digrafici grecolatini e latinogreci nell’alto medioevo”, Römische historische Mitteilungen 40 (1998), 49–118, 105 (fn. 120).
Catalogues
de Montfaucon, B.: Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manoscriptorum nova, Vol. 1, Parisiis 1739, 228. 
Gryson, R.: Manuscrits vieux latins: répertoire descriptif, Vol. II, Freiburg 2004, 45–45 (VL 310).
Inguanez, M.: Codicum Casinensium manuscriptorum catalogus, V. III, Monte Cassino 1940–41, 107–108.
Mioni, E.: Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane, Vol. I–II, Roma 1965 (Indici e Cataloghi, XX), I, 208–209 (Nr. 115).
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 140. 
Sadjak, I.: “De codicibus graecis in Monte Casino”, Rozprawy Akademii Umiejętności. Wydział Filologiczny 3/5 (= t. 50) 1913, 1–97, 72–73.