Beta

Ra 194

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Grec 22 (olim Reg. 2853). No diktyon: 49583.
s. XII | Parchment; Palimpsest (The manuscript contains many palimpsested folios)  e.g., ff. 14v, 29v, 44v, 45r-48v, 51r-51v, 58r-58v, 62v, 63r, 68v, 69r-69v, 72r-74v, 76r-76v, 79v, 80v, 103v, 119r, 120r, 123v, 125v, 128r, 141v. The inferior script is unknown. For the content of the superior script see below, 280 ff., 190 × 130 mm (text area: 115 x 80 mm  108-115 × 76-80), 1 col., 19 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Reggio style)  see Leroy 1982: 207, n. 27. | Provenance: Southern Italy.
Psalms and Odes. | Enlarged decorated initials mark the beginning of each Psalm.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–8v Paschal table beginning with the year 1125/1126
9r–204r Ps 1-151
204v–206r Ode 1
206r–210v Ode 2
211r–212r Ode 3
212r–214r Ode 4
214r–215r Ode 5
215r–216r Ode 6
216r–218v Ode 7
218v–220r Ode 8
220r–221v Ode 9
221v Ode 13
221v–222r The hymn Φῶς ἱλαρὸν
222r–223r Ode 14, des. "κύριε τὸ ἔλεός σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κύριε τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου μὴ παρίδῃς‧ σοὶ πρέπει αἶνος, σοὶ πρέπει ὕμνος‧ σοὶ πρέπει δόξα τῶ πατρὶ καὶ τῷ υἱῷ
223v–224r Makarismoi
224r–225r The Nicene Creed
225r–226v Erotapokriseis: questions and answers about the Holy Trinity.
226v–227r The Lord’s Prayer
227r The Cherubic Hymn
227v Thanksgiving hymn for the Holy Communion
228r–230r Troparia , inc. "τῶν ἁγίων ὁ χορὸς εὗρεν πηγὴν τῆς ζωῆς".
230r–230v Prayer of repentance, inc. "Ἄχραντε, ἀμόλυντε, πολυεύσπλαχνε, κύριε".
231r–238v Acolouthia of the Compline
239r–242r Prayers by Ephrem the Syrian
242r–243r Ode 11
243r–244v Ode 12
244v–246v Troparia , inc. "ἰδοὺ ὁ νυμφίος ἔρχεται ἐν τῷ μεσῷ τῆς νυκτός".
247r–249v Troparia sung during Matins.
249v–255r Catanyctic hymns and prayers
255v–260v Paracletic canon to the Theotokos, inc. “πῶς μου θρηνήσω τὸν βίον τὸν ῥυπαρόν".
260v–265r Paracletic canon to the Theotokos, inc. “τῆς μετανοίας, Ἰησοῦ φιλάνθρωπε, πύλας μοι ἄνοιξον".
265r–266v Prayers
267r–270v Hymns on the Holy Trinity, "ὕμνοι τριαδικοί“.
271r–275v Prayers
276r–276v Text on the number of days per month.
277r–278v Prayers
279r Blank
279v–280v Prayers to Saint Nicholas and to the Theotokos by a later hand.
Bibliography
Leroy, J.: “L’oméga paraphé, particularité d’un scriptorium calabrais”, Bisanzio e l’Italia. Raccolta di studi in onore di Agostino Pertusi, Milano 1982, 199–217, 207 (n.27); 208 (n.30).
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 58 (n.36); 59 (n.42); 105 (n.18); 108–109; 289 (n.22). 
Catalogues
Omont, H.: Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque nationale et des autres bibliothèques de Paris et des Départements, Paris 1886, 5. 
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 196. 
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