Beta

Ra 270

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1864. No diktyon: 68493.
s. XII | Parchment (ff. 1–20; 23–28; 31–49; 54–136; 139–177; 182–192; 196–285); Palimpsest (ff. 21–22, 29–30, 50–53, 137–138, 178–181, 193–195)  The scriptura superior is dated to s. XIV and it contains Psalms. The scriptura inferior is dated to s. XI–XII and it includes fragments of a Synaxarion., 285 ff., 160 × 100 mm (text area: 110 x 81 mm), 1 col., 15–17 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Reggio style). | Scribe: Γεώργιος Βασιλικός  ff. 7ar-v, 31-32v, 114r-v; RGK I 56, II 75, III 93. | Provenance: Southern Italy.
Psalms and Odes. | Text-type: L.
Content
1–253vPs 1-151, tit: “ψαλτήριον σὺν θεῶ κατὰ τὸν ἁγιοπολίτην’’. Ps 7:7-17, 13:4-15:tit, 48:12-19 are missing
253v–255vOde 1
255v–261rOde 2
261r–262vOde 3
262v–264vOde 4
264v–266rOde 5
266r–267rOde 6
267r–269rOde 7
269r–271vDaniel 46-51 and Ode 8
271v–273rOde 9
273r–274vOde 11
274v–276vOde 12
276v–277vOde 14
277v–278rThe troparion from the Horologion “Ὁ μονογενὴς υἱὸς καὶ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ’’.
278r–279rThe Nicene Creed
279r–279vThe Lord’s Prayer
279v–280vCherubic hymns
280v–281rThe hymn Φῶς ἱλαρόν, tit: “ἆσμα ἑσπερινόν’’.
281rOde 13
281r–285rThe hymn “Μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός” (cf. Isaiah 8: 9-18) and other hymns of the Great Compline. Tit. “ἐκ τῆς προφητείας Ἠσαίου ὑμνολογία εἰς τὸ ἀπόδειπνον’’.
285vNotes by later hands.
Bibliography
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, 101 (n. 50). 
Catalogues
Canart, P.: Codices Vaticani Graeci: codices 1745–1962, Tomus I, Vaticano 1970, 388–391.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 267. 
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