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
1–253v Ps 1-151, tit: “ψαλτήριον σὺν θεῶ κατὰ τὸν ἁγιοπολίτην’’. Ps 7:7-17, 13:4-15:tit, 48:12-19 are missing
253v–255v Ode 1
255v–261r Ode 2
261r–262v Ode 3
262v–264v Ode 4
264v–266r Ode 5
266r–267r Ode 6
267r–269r Ode 7
269r–271v Daniel 46-51 and Ode 8
271v–273r Ode 9
273r–274v Ode 11
274v–276v Ode 12
276v–277v Ode 14
277v–278r The troparion from the Horologion “Ὁ μονογενὴς υἱὸς καὶ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ’’.
278r–279r The Nicene Creed
279r–279v The Lord’s Prayer
279v–280v Cherubic hymns
280v–281r The hymn Φῶς ἱλαρόν, tit: “ἆσμα ἑσπερινόν’’.
281r Ode 13
281r–285r The 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’’.
285v Notes 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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