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Psalter

Egypt, Sinai, Mt., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sin.Slav.6/N. Catalog: 6/N. Collection: New Collection.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Parchment. Extent: 17 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 20-21 lines per page. Condition: The MS is part of the MS 6 (6/O) of the Old collection of the monastery. Contains two unnumbered and separate gatherings and one extra folio in the beginning of the first gathering. The first gathering (f. 1-9) immediately proceeds the corpus of 6/O; the second one (f. 10-17) carries on from the main MS corpus filling up the gap between f. 125 and 126. . Decoration: Red double lined initials with spiral braided ornaments in the beginning of each Psalm and each Canticle.
Scribe

Summary: The two gatherings are written by two different scribes, identified as Scribe A (f. 1-9) and Scribe C (f. 10-17) from the old MS part (see Altbauer-Lunt 1978)

  • Hand: Cyrillic majuscule. Russian orthography.
ContentsContains Ps.9 - Ps. 17:34 and the Canticles.
History11th c., end - 12th c. beginning.
BibliographyAltbauer-Lunt 1978; Tarnanidis 1988: 109-110.