Codex Veronensis (R) is a 6th-century manuscript of the

Psalter A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were ...

, with the shelfmark "Verona, Chapter Library I (1)." It is a bilingual manuscript in

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and

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

. The Greek text is that of the Septuagint; the Latin is a unique version of the

Old Latin Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical ), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. A member of the Italic languages, it descends from a common Proto-Italic ...

. The manuscript consists of 405 leaves, measuring 27 x 20 cms. Each page contains 26 lines. The text is written in an uncial hand of the 6-7th century, probably written in the north of Italy.R. Weber, ''Le Psautier Romain'', Rome (1953), p.xvii. The Greek text appears at each opening on the left-hand page, and the Latin on the right. Both texts are written in Roman characters. A few lacunae (Ps. 1. 1—2. 7, 65. 20—68. 3, 68. 26—33, 105. 43—106. 2) have been supplied by a later hand, which has also added the ψαλμὸς ἰδιόγραφος (Ps. 151.). The Psalms are followed prima manu by eight

canticle In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle (from the Latin ''canticulum'', a diminutive of ''canticum'', "song") is a psalm-like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books su ...

s (Exod. 15. 1—21, Deut. 32. 1—44, 1 Regn. 2. 1—10, Isa. 5. 1—9, Jon. 2. 3—10, Hab. 3. 1—10,

Magnificat The Magnificat (Latin for "y soulmagnifies he Lord) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Byzantine Rite as the Ode of the Theotokos (). Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text. This ...

, Dan. 3. 23 ff.).

Old Bibliography

Printed by J. Bianchini in his ''Vindiciae canonicarum scripturarum Vulgatae Latinae editionis...'', (Rome, 1740), p.1-278, and used by Lagarde in the apparatus of his ''Specimen and Psalterii Gr. quinquagena prima'', and in the ''Cambridge manual Septuagint'' (1891). A new collation was made in 1892 by H. A. Redpath, which has been employed in 142the second edition of ''The Old Testament in Greek'' (1896); but it is much to be wished that the Verona Chapter may find it possible to have this important Psalter photographed.

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Manuscripts of the Septuagint
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* J. Bianchini
''Vindiciae canonicarum scripturarum Vulgatae Latinae editionis...'', Rome, 1740
at Archive.org. Page 1 is on p.456 of the PDF. 6th-century manuscripts Psalters Septuagint manuscripts