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–100vOct.
100v–147vReg. I-IV
147v–170rPar. I-II
170v–229vIV Proph.
230r–254rXII Proph.
254r–263rIob
263r–286rPs 1-150
286r–294vProv.
294v–297rEccl.
297r–298rCant.
299r–312vEsdr. I-II
312v–316rEst.
316r–320rSap.
320r–331rSir.
331r–336vIdt.
336v–339vTob.
339v–360vMac I-III
361r–vblank
362r–441rN.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.