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Psalter; Psalter of Dimitri

Egypt, Sinai, Mt., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sin.Slav.3/N. Catalog: 3/N. Collection: New Collection.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Parchment. Extent: 145 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 24-26 lines per column. Decoration: Large decorated initials in the beginning of the Psalms. . Additions: 1r: An inscription on f. 1r contains the name of a reader after whom the MS was named.
Scribe

Summary: Two anonymous scribes

  • Hand: Rounded Glagolitic script. One-jer and four-jus orthography and an usage of the two letters for i.
Contents Psalms 1-151. It also contains some added texts of great importance: Glagolitic, Geek, and Latin abecedaria, apocryphal prayers, and the oldest Slavonic medical prescriptions.
History11th-12th c.
BibliographyKME 3: 417-418; Tarnanidis 1988: 91-100.