Psalterium Sinaiticum
The Psalterium Sinaiticum is a manuscript in Church Slavonic in Glagolitic script from the 11th century. It probably originated in the Bulgarian Empire . The manuscript contains 209 parchment sheets with the 151 psalms , plus the Lord's Prayer, and 15 hymns ( Canticae , Doxologia maior ). The text follows the Greek Septuagint . It contains some Graecisms and early archaic Old Slavic word forms, as well as some Cyrillic letters . The manuscript was probably a copy of a model that had been created for the missionary work of Cyril and Method in various Slavic-speaking areas.
In 1850, 177 leaves were found in St. Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula by Archimandrite Porphyrios Uspenski. In 1975 Mosche Altmann discovered another 32 sheets during renovation work in the same monastery.
expenditure
- Facsimile of the first 177 sheets (Ps. 1-137)
- Geitler L., Psaltery. glagolski spomenik manastira Sinai brda . Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Vienna, 1883
- С. Н. Северьянов: Синайская псалтырь. Глаголический памятник XI в. Пг., 1922.
- М. Altbauer, Psalterium Sinaiticum, an 11th Century Glagolitic Manuscript from St. Catharine's Monastery , Mt. Sinai. Skopje, 1971.
- Psalterii Sinaitici pars nova: monasterii s. Catharinae codex slav. 2 / N (ed. Mareš, FV). Vienna, 1997.
literature
- Bernd von Arnim , studied the old Bulgarian Psalterium Sinaiticum. 1930, reprint: Kraus 1968
- Bernd von Arnim, The writers of the Psalterium Sinaiticum. Ijdo, Leiden 1931
