Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Manuscript
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 372

Content	Biblica > Vetus Testamentum > Psalterium
Person(s)	Patron Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/ Konstantinos X Doukas - PBW: Konstantinos/10/ Scribe Theodoros of Kaisareia (11th c.) - RGK: I.131 - VGH: 138.E
Date	1051-1100
Origin	the Monastery of Stoudios < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey
Bibliography	J. Anderson, P. Canart, C. Walter, 1989, The Barberini Psalter. Codex Vaticanus Barberinianus Graecus 372. Introduction and Commentary, Zürich: passim I. Hutter 1997, Theodoros βιβλιογράφος und die Buchmalerei in Studiu, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 51, 177-208: 179 A. Rhoby 2015, Inscriptions and Manuscripts in Byzantium: A Fruitful Symbiosis?, in M. Maniaci, P. Orsini (eds.), Scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria: fra Oriente e Occidente, Cassino, 15-44: 20, 22 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 461-466 A. Rhoby 2020, Inscriptions and the Byzantine Beholder, in M. Lauxtermann, I. Toth (eds.), Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations, Abingdon, 107-121: 113 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 26-36 K. Weitzmann 1980, The Sinai Psalter cod. 48 with Marginal Illustrations and Three Leaves in Leningrad , in K. Weitzmann (ed.), Byzantine liturgical psalters and Gospels, London, 1-12: 2 Digital Vatican Library (last accessed: 2016-06-08). https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Barb.gr.372 display 5 more references (8 in total) hide 5 references (8 in total)
Identification	Diktyon (Pinakes), 64915 Paratexts of the Bible (manuscripta biblica), 64915
Comment	The exact dating of the manuscript is debated. Spatharakis (1976: 34): 'The portraits must therefore represent Constantine X Ducas, his wife Eudocia and one of their sons Michael or Constantine. The year of their coronation as co-emperors, 1060, must be the year of execution of the Barberini Psalter.' Anderson - Canart - Walter (1989: 28): 'The psalter's production at the Studios in the period from around 1092 to 1095 corresponds to what we can surmise from the cycle of miniatures, the book's ornament, the imperial portrait leaf and the response of Leo of Chalcedon and other clergymen to the confiscations made during Alexius' reign.'
Occurrences	f. 4v [19581] ὁ γῆς ἀνάσσων καὶ ποιμὴν καὶ τῶν ὅλων [14th-15th c.] f. 5r [16997] οὓς ἡ τριφεγγὴς ἔνθεος μοναρχία [1051-1100] f. 247r [17568] χ(ριστ)ῶ ἄνακτι δόξα καὶ κρά\|τος πρέπει [1051-1100] f. 247v [24519] ὅρα θεατὰ τὴν ὁ\|ρωμένην θέαν [1051-1100]
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki, Evelyne Diels The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.

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