Beta

Ra 9077

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. | Provenance: Cyprus(?).  cf. Stefec (2012)Owner: Μάρκος Φλαγγῆς.
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.
Content
1r–7v Prolegomena (1r-v dodecasyllabic iambi dedicated to David and Psalter by an anonymous)
2r–3r Eusebius Caesarensis, De diapsalmate and Argumentum in Psalmos
3r–6v Eusebius Caesarensis, Divisio psalterii
7r–v Elenchus cum incipit Psalmorum numeratorum (7v probationes pennae de diversae manibus exaratae in rasura. Additur elenchus incipit Psalmorum cum diversa numeratione)
8r–237v Commentary on Psalms 1-150
238r–240r Od 1
240v–247v Od 2
247v–248r Od 3
248v–252r Od 4 Title without rubrication
252r–253v Od 6
253v–258v Od 5
258v–260v Od 11
260v–262r Od 7 Title Od 8 (ζ´ in marg.)
262r–263v Od 8
263v–265r Od 9
265r–265v Od 13
265v–266r Tabulae Paschales a. 1242-43, 1245-53, 1242-47
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.