Beta

Ra 279

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.05.33. No diktyon: 15981.
s. XIV, XV  s. XIV: ff. 1r–154r; s. XV: ff. 154v–261v | Parchment (ff. 1–156); Paper (ff. 157–261), 261 ff., 140 × 100 mm, 1 col., 24 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Hodegon style).
Psalms and Odes. | The titles and the initials of the Psalms’ verses are written in red ink.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–139v Ps 1–151*
140r–141v Ode 1
141v–144v Ode 2
145r–146r Ode 3
146r–147v Ode 4
147v–148v Ode 5
148v–149r Ode 6
149r–150v Ode 7
150v–153r Daniel 46–51 and Ode 8
153r–154r Ode 9
154r–156r Prayers to the Holy Virgin and to Christ, inc. “ἄσπιλε, ἄμόλυντε, ἄφθορε, ἄχραντε, θεόνυμφε δέσποινα’’.
156v–157v Blank
158v–195v Troparia and Prayers for the kathismata. Tit. “μετὰ τὸ πρῶτον κάθισμα, τρισάγιον καὶ τὰ τροπάρια ταῦτα, ἦχος α’’. Inc. “Ἐν ἀνομίαις συλληφθεὶς ἐγὼ ὁ ἄσωτος’’.
196r–216r Selected Psalms by Gennadios Scholarios (esp. prayers), tit. “Γενναδίου πατριάρχου τοῦ Σχολαρίου οἱ ὑπόλοιποι τῆς ἀκολουθίας τοῦ ἡμερονυκτίου ψαλμοί, ἐτέθησαν ἐνταῦθα τῶν εὐχῶν μόνων ἐκλεγεισῶν’’.
216v–217r Prayers before sleep.
217v–260v Prayers of Ephraim the Syrian, tit. “εὐχαὶ συλλεχθεῖσαι ἀπὸ τῆς θείας γραφῆς, τὰ πλεῖστα δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου ’Εφραὶμ τοῖς βουλομένοις πολεμῆσαι τὴν ἑαυτῶν πρὸς τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰς ἡδονὰς ἐγκειμένην προαίρεσιν”. Inc. “Δέξαι δέησιν ῥυπαροῦ καὶ ἀκαθάρτου στόματος”. According to Parpulov (2014: Appendix 1), these prayers are part of the Horologion of Thecaras
261r–261v Acolouthia, tit. “ἀκολουθία τοῦ ἐνυπνιασμοῦ”. Inc. “ὡς ὁ ἄσωτος υἱός, ἦλθον κἀγὼ οἰκτίρμων”.
Bibliography
Parpulov, G., Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, ca. 850–1350 AD, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1. 
Catalogues
Bandini, A., Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae, vol. 1, Florence 1764, 58–59.
Rahlfs, A., Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 66.