Beta

Ra 225

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 2925 (720) (olim 51). No diktyon: 73490.
s. XIV  According to Bernard de Montfaucon, the manuscript would be from the 11th century but Holmes notes “[…] upon a careful inspection it seemed that the writer had imitated the handwriting of that age, and that the Ms. was not older than the thirteenth Century". Cf. Holmes, The third annual account of the collation of the mss. of the Sept.-Version, Oxford 1791, p. VIII. | Parchment (ff. 1–368); Paper (ff. I–II), 368 ff., 120 × 90 mm, 1 col., 14 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Imitative script). | Owner: Monastero del SS. Salvatore, Bologna  f. 1r.
Greek Psalter. | Gold and red initials. The titles are rubricated in red. There are some marginal notes in Latin (i. e. ff. 170v, 189v, 199r, 222r). Decorative headpieces on ff. 1r, 177r and 336r. From f. 362v to f. 363r the ink is very light, almost red.Text-type: L.
Content
1–334r Ps 1–150
334v–335v Ps 151
176r Blank page
176v Miniature
336r–339r Od 1
339r–346r Od 2
346v–348r Od 3
348v–351v Od 4
351v–354r Od 5
354r–355r Od 6
355r–360r Od 7
360v–362r Od 8
362r–364v Od 9
364v–368r Od 12
368v Latin annotation
Bibliography
Degni, P., I manoscritti greci della biblioteca del monastero del SS. Salvatore di Bologna attraverso gli inventari. Prime considerazioni, in Estudios Bizantinos 3 (2015), 189–206, 200, 205. 
J. Tikkanen, Die Psalterillustration im Mittelalter. Bd. I. Die Psalterillustration in der Kunstgeschichte, Helsingfors, Druckerei der Finnischen Litteratur–Gesellschaft, 1895, 141. 
Lowden, J., Observations on Illustrated Byzantine Psalters, in The Art Bulletin 70 (1988), 242–260, 259–260.
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, App. B1.
Catalogues
Diarium Italicum. Sive Monumentorum Veterum, Bibliothecarum, Musaeorum, &C. Notitiae Singulares in Itinerario Italico Collectae. Additis schematibus ac fuguris. A.R.P.D. Bernardo de Montfaucon […], Parisiis, Apud Joannem Anisson Typographie Regiae Praefectum, 1702, 407.
Puntoni, V., Indicis codicum graecorum Bononiensium ab Al. Oliviero compositi supplementum, in Studi italiani di filologia classica 4 (1896), 365–378, 377. 
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, Berlin 1914 (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), 36.