Martina Filosa: Some remarks on new Hexaplaric readings from a fragmentary catena to the Psalter (Fol 528, Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimar)

Fol 528 is part of the Greek holdings of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library in Weimar (Germany). It is a fragment of a paper manuscript consisting of four leaves and dating back to the 11th century, which bears the text of a Psalter along with a catena commentary. Due to the extremely fragmentary state of the manuscript, only few Psalms have survived, i.e. part of Ps. 116, Ps. 117, Ps. 118 and Ps. 119; Ps. 125, Ps. 126 and Ps. 127 in their entirety. The catena of Fol 528 seems to primarily consist of excerpts from the Expositiones in Psalmos of John Chrysostom (PG 55). In order to fill the gaps in the chrysostomic work, the compiler of the commentary used excerpts from the Interpretatio in Psalmos of Theodoret of Cyrrhus (PG 80). A remarkable feature of this codex is that, in addition to the quotations of the Church Fathers, four hitherto unidentified fragments are to be found in the text of the commentary as well as thirty readings from Origenes’ Hexapla. Three previously unknown Hexaplaric readings in Fol 528 will be the main subject of the present oral presentation. The Hexaplaric readings refer respectively to Ps. 117, 11, Ps. 118, 104 as well as Ps. 118, 109. The aim of this paper will be therefore to try and retrace the textual tradition of the unknown readings as well as to explain their significance in the catena of Fol 528.