Beta

Ra 281

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.05.18. No diktyon: 15966.
s. X–XI; XI; XVI | Parchment (XI: ff. 29-34, 36, 38, 39-43, 45-50, 52-65, 67-141, 144-151, 153-163, 165-187, 189-232)  Parpulov (Appendix B1) dates this part of the manuscript to the 10th century; Paper (XVI: ff. 1-28, 35, 37, 44, 51, 66, 142-143, 152, 164, 188, 233-257)  Those folios were added to the manuscript by Francesco Zanetti during the 16th century, see Baldi (2007: 498); Palimpsest (X–XI: f. 193)  The scriptura inferior is dated to the 10th-11th c. and contains Hippokrates’ Prognostikon. The scriptura superior is dated to the 13th and consists of the Psalms 111:4-112:3b. According to Baldi (2007: 498), the scriptura superior is written by a baroque hand from Otranto, whereas the scriptura inferior is executed in the style called “en as de pique”, 257 ff., 160 × 120 mm, 1 col., 18 lines per page. |  Minuscule (Minuscola otrantina scr. sup.; Minuscule (Style en as de pique)  scr. inf.. | Provenance: Southern Italy.
Psalms and Odes. | Text-type: L.
Content
1r–242rPs 1-151
242r–244rOde 1
244r–248rOde 2
248r–249rOde 3
249r–250rOde 4
250r–251rOde 5
251r–251vOde 6
251v–253vOde 7
253v–256rDaniel 46-51 and Ode 8
256r–257rOde 9
257rBook epigram https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/17549
Bibliography
Baldi, D.: “Il palinsesto laur. plut. 57.26: studio codicologico e paleografico. Con una postilla su alcuni codici laurenziani di origine salentina”, Byzantion 77 (2007), 466–500., 498.
Meesters, R.: “The visual representation of the formulaic colophon verse τῷ συντελεστῇ τῶν καλῶν θεῷ χάρις”, in C. Brockmann, D. Deckers, D. Harlfinger, S. Valente (éd), Griechisch–byzantinische Handschriftenforschung, Berlin – Boston, De Gruyter, 2020, 333–348, 345.
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, 41.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 65.