Beta

Ra 2006

Cambridge, University Library, T-S 16.320. No diktyon: 74189.
s. VI  rescr. hebr. | Parchment, 2 f., 195 × 160 mm  vHaelst 230 × 185, 24 lines per page  24 lines per page; the omissions cannot be determined with certainty, as the edition does not distinguish between missing and indecipherable letters. |  Majuscule (careful majuscule, script similar to Ra S; regular orthography; nomen sacrum spelling: θς, κς ανος, written in stichoi, continuation of stichoi indented on following line). | Provenance: Cairo, Geniza.
Ps 143–144. | In his 1903 article, Taylor announces Baldrey’s discovery of the fragment along with the transcription of a few lines. Both leaves are heavily damaged, especially in the upper area, but at least remnants of all margins are preserved, width 2.5–3cm. | Collation: LXXGot, listed there as mixed text | Text-type: mixed.
Content
1–2 scr. sup.Pal. Talmud, Moed Qatan 82a–b, 83b
1–2 scr. inf.Ps. 143:1d δακτυλου]ς – 144:6b διη]γησονται (mainly fragm.)
Bibliography
Sokoloff, M. / Yahalom, J.: Christian Palimpsests from the Cairo Geniza: RHT 8 (1978), S. 109–132, Nr. XXIX.100–101, S. 124.
Tchernetska, N.: Hand–List of the Greek Palimpsests in Cambridge Libraries: I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona, 4–10 ottobre 1998), a cura di G. Prato, Pap. Flor. XXXI, tom. II, Firenze 2000, 733–739, 738.
Turner, E. G: The Typology of the Early Codex, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 1977 (Haney Foundation Series 18), OT 161.
van Haelst, J.: Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens: Publications de la Sorbonne, Série «Papyrologie» – 1, Paris 1976, Nr. 236.
Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta–Unternehmen aufgestellt von A. Rahlfs. NGWG.PH 1914, Beiheft (= MSU II). Berlin 1914, 42.
Catalogues
Fraenkel, D.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments von Alfred Rahlfs, Bd. I,1, Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert (Septuaginta, Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Supplementum I/1), Göttingen 22020, 52–53. 
Hart, J. H. A.: The New Septuagint Fragment: JThS 4 (1903), 215–217.
Taylor, C.: The New Septuagint Fragment: JThS 4 (1903), 130.