Beta

Ra 271

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1747. No diktyon: 68376.
s. X/XI | Parchment, 288 ff., 210 × 215 mm (text area: 176 x 109 mm  Text area: 100 × 74 and 176 × 109), 1 col., 16 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Scholarly hand).
Psalms and Odes with marginal catena. | The catena on the Psalms contains excerpts from Anastasios, Apollinarius of Laodicea, Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, Cyril of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, Diodore, Dionysius Areopagita, Eusebius of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Hesychius, Maximus, Olympiodorus, Origen, Severus, Theodore of Heraclea and Theodoret of Cyrus. The manuscript is related to Cod. Ambros. B 106 sup. (Ra 113). | Text-type: L.
Content
IrScribblings
IvPoem in political verses by a later hand, not easily readable. Inc. “με…δὲ τῶν παρθένων ὧν εἴρικα βρωμάτων’’.
IIrPs 1:1-2a in Greek and in Hebrew with Greek letters, tit. “ἐβραϊστὶ’’; the Hebrew alphabet along with the Greek names of the Hebrew letters; Ps 111:1a in Greek and in Hebrew with Greek letters. The latter can be identified with the so-called Secunda, the second column of Origen’s Hexapla see Albrecht (2020: 217–220)
IIvMiniature of David, badly faded
1r–264vPs 1–151 with catena CPG C27. Catena type XIV Karo-Lietzmann
265r–267rOde 1 with catena Catena on the Odes: CPG C45-C46
267v–273rOde 2 with catena
273r–274vOde 3 with catena
274v–277rOde 4 with catena
277r–278vOde 5 with catena
279r–279vOde 6 with catena
280r–282rOde 7 with catena
282r–284rDaniel 3:46-51 and Ode 8
284v–286rOde 9
286r–287vOde 11
287vOde 12:1-3c
288rFragment of John Chrysostom’s liturgy by a later hand
288vPaschal table for the years 1276–1282 by a later hand
Bibliography
Albrecht, F., “Report on the Göttingen Septuagint”, Textus (2020), 201–220, 217–220 (Hexapla). 
Dorival, G., Les chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes: contribution à l'étude d'une forme littéraire, III, Leuven 1992, 440–492.
Mercati, G., Nuove note di letteratura biblica e cristiana antica, Città del Vaticano 1941, 257.
Mercati, G., Osservazioni a proemi del Salterio di Origene, Ippolito, Eusebio, Cirillo Alessandrino e altri, con frammenti inediti, Studi e testi 142, Città del Vaticano 1948, 6 (n. 2).
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Canart, P., Codices Vaticani Graeci: codices 1745–1962, Tomus I, Vaticano 1970, 17–19.
Karo, G., H. Lietzmann, Catenarum graecarum catalogus (Nachrichten der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), Göttingen 1902, 43. 
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 265–266.