Beta
Ra 9077 (olim 1907)
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Theol. gr. 159 (olim167, f. 008r). No diktyon: 71826.
s. X: ff. 008r-265r; s. XIII: ff. 265v-266; s. XVI: 001r-007v
| Parchment, 267 ff.,
1 col., ff. 001r-006v: 23; ff. 007r-265v: 44 lines per page.
Minuscule (Calligraphic of X century; Biblical lemma in alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel) ff. 008r-265v;
Minuscule (Calligraphic of XVI century, maybe Μάρκος Φλαγγῆς) ff. 001r-007v.
Scribe:
Main hand, maybe from southern Italy ff. 008r-265v.
Owner: Μάρκος Φλαγγῆς.
Provenance: Cyprus(?).
cf. Stefec (2012)
Catena in Odas.
| The manuscript is composed of two parts. The first, in paper, contains a byzantine poem devoted to David in dodecasyllabic verse. The second, in parchement, contains the Commentary on Psalms by Theodoret, from the Protheoria to the Psalm 150. Each lemma has an ektesis letter rubricated and each Psalm has a rubricated title as well. The Protheoria shows a beautiful geometric illumination.
Text-type: L.
Bibliography
Meesters, et al.: “Makarios’ cycle of epigrams on the Psalms Bodleian Baroccianus 194”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109 (2016), 842.
Stefec, R.: “Varia palaeographica Atheniensia”, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 51 (2014), 154 (n. 17).
Stefec, R.: “Zu einigen zypriotischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek”, *Rivista di studi Bizantini e Neoellenici 49 (2012), 71 (n. 70), pl. 24–26.
Catalogues
Hunger, H.: Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Teil 3.1, Codices Theologici, Wien 1986, 238–42.
Mossay, J.: Repertorium Nazianzenum. Orationes. Textus Graecus, 2. Codices Americae, Angliae, Austriae (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, N.F., 2. Reihe. Forschungen zu Gregor von Nazianz, 5), Paderborn – München – Wien – Zurich 1987.
Parpulov, G.: Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv 2014, Appendix B1.
Rahlfs, A.: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta–Unternehmens der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2), Berlin 1914, 321.
Online Sources
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
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