Two Alleged Witnesses of the Catena of the Paris Psalter: Vaticani graeci 617 and 1519
In Byzantium, the popularity of the Psalter as a liturgical book generated a vast number of catenae on the Psalms. Georg Karo and Hans Lietzmann divided this corpus into different types of catenae in order to bring some structure to the material. The famous Paris Psalter, a name given to the tenth-c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Pages: 403-437 |
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Psalter (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) Vat. gr. 617
/ Psalter (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) Vat. gr. 1519
/ Psalms
/ Old Testament
/ Catena
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | In Byzantium, the popularity of the Psalter as a liturgical book generated a vast number of catenae on the Psalms. Georg Karo and Hans Lietzmann divided this corpus into different types of catenae in order to bring some structure to the material. The famous Paris Psalter, a name given to the tenth-century manuscript Parisinus graecus 139 (Rahlfs 1133), is the best witness of the type III catena, but certainly not the only one. In his attempt to list all the witnesses of the type III catena, Gilles Dorival is the only one to mention Vaticani graeci 617 (16th cent., Rahlfs 1783, K) and 1519 (17th cent., L). Catalogues suggest that neither of the two manuscripts is a regular witness of the catena. This article investigates the relation between both Vatican manuscripts and the type III catena. On the one hand, it argues that they can be connected with the type III catena: K offers the catena on Psalm 1 and still has some remains of the catena in Psalm 3; and L's exegesis on a certain number of Psalms contains the excerpts from Origen that are attributed to him in the catena. Collations from the beginning of the Psalter also show that both of them have variants in common with one branch of the tradition of the type III catena. On the other hand, the article demonstrates that both manuscripts move away from the type III catena by using another source alongside or instead of the type III catena. K transforms the catena into the commentary on the Psalms by Theodoret, while L is composing a new catena from a certain point onwards. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.5.116772 |