Gotha Psalter

The Gotha Psalter (No. 27 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a psalter from the 9th century. It contains the text of Psalms 1.1 to 67.8 and 68.6 to 70.11 in Greek . A Latin interlinear translation is inserted between the lines , complete up to Psalm 12, incomplete up to Psalm 17. The words are separated by dots, which indicates that it was made by Irish Scottish monks .

The manuscript was in the Murbach monastery in Alsace . It came to the ducal library in Gotha at the beginning of the 19th century at the latest . Today it is in the Gotha Research Library with the signature Membr. I 17.

literature

• Alfred Rahlfs : Septuagint Studies I-III. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965, p. 7 ( online ).
• Friedrich August Ukert , Friedrich Jacobs : Contributions to the older literature or peculiarities of the ducal library in Gotha . Publishing house Dyk, Leipzig 1835–38.