Leontien Vanderschelden: The manuscript tradition of the type III catena within the broader catena tradition of the Psalms.

The Parisinus graecus 139, an important illuminated Psalter known as the Paris Psalter, has been discussed intensively in art-historical research. The text itself, a type III catena on the Psalms, was studied by Karo-Lietzmann, Dorival and Mühlenberg. Each of those studies had their own focus: to define categories in the Psalter catenae, to retrace the origins and composition of these catenae and to assess the value of the catena tradition to retrieve the commentaries of certain patristic authors. The witnesses of the type III catena however, can now be described in more detail and the composition of the stemma shows how every witness treated the text. This brings some changes to what was previously assumed: MS Venetus Marcianus graecus 17 is not a twin manuscript of the Paris Psalter and some of the witnesses listed by Dorival composed their own commentary on the Psalms using the type III catena. These findings can be put in a broader perspective through a comparison with the catena tradition of the Psalms in general.In my paper I will present the relations between the manuscript witnesses of the type III catena and discuss how they reflect the more general trends within the broader tradition of the catenae on the Psalms.