Beta

Ra 68

Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. Z.5 (coll. 420). No diktyon: 69476.
GA Number: 205.
XV/2 | Parchment, 441 ff., 395 × 275 mm, 1 col., 55–56 lines per page. |  Minuscule. | Scribes: Γεώργιος Τζαγγαρόπουλος  ff. 1–295, attr. Harlfinger; cf. PLP 27624; RGK I, 72; RGK II, 93; RGK III, 121, “anonymus Δ Τ”  ff. 295–441, attr. Harlfinger. | Patron: Cardinal Bessarion  PLP 2707. | Provenance: Rome. | Owner: Cardinal Bessarion  PLP 2707.
Complete Bible. | According to Fernández Marcos, this manuscript is an apograph of Ra 731. C. Jesus identifies it as a source of the Complutensian Polyglot.Text-type: L.
Content
1r–100v Oct.
100v–147v Reg. I-IV
147v–170r Par. I-II
170v–229v IV Proph.
230r–254r XII Proph.
254r–263r Iob
263r–286r Ps 1-150
286r–294v Prov.
294v–297r Eccl.
297r–298r Cant.
299r–312v Esdr. I-II
312v–316r Est.
316r–320r Sap.
320r–331r Sir.
331r–336v Idt.
336v–339v Tob.
339v–360v Mac I-III
361r–v blank
362r–441r N.T.
Bibliography
Farnes, A. T.: Simply Come Copying: Direct Copies as Test Cases in the Quest for Scribal Habits, Tübingen 2019, 124–165.
Fernández Marcos, N.: “Greek Sources of the Complutensian Polyglot,” in: N. De Lange (ed.), Jewish Reception of Greek Bible Versions, Tübingen 2009, 302–315, 303–304.
Fernández Marcos, N.: “Un manuscrito complutense redivivo: Ms. griego 442 = Villa–Amil 22”, in: Sefarad: revista de estudios hebraicos, sefardíes y de Oriente Próximo 65 (2005), 65–83, 66, 68. 
Harlfinger, D.: Specimina griechischer Kopisten der Renaissance, I, Berlin 1974, cat. 58–59.
Jesus, C. A. M., “A New Manuscript of the Septuagint and the First Two Editions of the Greek Bible”, in: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 60 (2020), 718–744, 725–726, 729. 
Catalogues
Mioni, E.: Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti, I.1, Rome 1981, 9–10.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 306–307.