Beta

Ra 273

Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. gr. 40. No diktyon: 66210.
s. XIV | Paper, 344 ff., 230 × 170 mm, 1 col., 23, 45 lines per page  23 lines: Psalms; 45 lines: Catena. | Provenance: Βέροια, μονὴ Tιμίου Προδρόμου τῆς Σκήτεως.  ff. 1r, 77rOwners: Δανιὴλ ἱερομόναχος  ff. 1r, 77r. Donation note. The note is written for the first time on f. 1r (defective) and rewritten on the outer margin of f. 77r. Transcription: Codices manuscripti, 29, Vasa, Kristina Augusta (Queen of Sweden, 1626–1689)  f. 1r, bottom margin. Ancient Shelfmark "881" , cf. Cod. BNF Lat. 10387, f. 40 r: Catena Graecorum Patrum in Psalmos.
Cat in Ps. | The manuscript presents the Psalms surrounded by the Catena. Catena Typus IX (Karo-Lietzmann, Catenarum graecarum catalogus, 35); CPG C022. There is no Catena on ff. 77r-114v. Titles and authors' names are rubricated. Some marginal notes are also visible.Text-type: L.
Content
1–344r Ps
56r–57v Blank leaves
344r There is a note, of a later hand, to Psalm 45:5. Incipit: Τοῦ ποταμοῦ τὰ ὁρμήματα εὐφραίνουσιν τὴν πόλιν τοῦ Θεοῦ. Codices manuscripti, p. 29
Bibliography
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Kinzig, W., In search of Asterius: Studies on the Authorship of the Homilies on the Psalms, Göttingen 1990 (Forschungen zur Kirchen– und Dogmengeschichte, 47), 81, 83, 106, 107 (n. 167), 112.
Mercati, G., Note di letteratura biblica e cristiana antica, Roma 1901 (Studi e testi, 5), 146, 167, 175.
Mercati, G., Osservazioni a proemi del Salterio di Origene, Ippolito, Eusebio, Cirillo Alessandrino e altri, con frammenti inediti, Città del Vaticano 1948 (Studi e testi, 142), 6, 10, 18.
Richard, M., Asterii Sophistae Commentariorum in Psalmos quae supersunt. Accedunt aliquot homiliae anonymae, Oslo 1956 (Symbolae Osloenses fasc. Suppl. 16), XIX, XXX.
Catalogues
Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii PP. 2 Bibliothecae Vaticanae descripti, praeside I. B. cardinali Pitra, recensuit et digessit Henricus Stevenson senior, Romae 1888, 29. 
Dorival, G., Les Chaînes exégétiques grecques sur les Psaumes. Contribution a l’étude d’une forme littéraire, Tome 5, Leuven 2018 (Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense. Études et documents, 54), 1–36.
Karo G., – Lietzmann, H., Catenarum graecarum catalogus, Göttingen 1902 (Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch–historische Klasse), 35. 
Mühlenberg, E., Psalmenkommentare aus der Katenenüberlieferung, Ban III: Untersuchungen zu den Psalmenkatenen, Berlin–New York 1978 (Patristische Texte und Studien), 27 seq.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, Berlin 1914 (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2), 246.
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