The Superscription at start of Vaticanus right before Genesis 1:1 Can U read it?
https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209 This is a screen shot of the start of Vaticanus right before Genesis 1:1, a Superscription written in a fancy obtuse font. Can anybody help me read it?
My guesses, etc. Sorry it is hard to type Greek mixed with English. But here goes:
Line 1 BIBLIOS ΒΙΒΛΙΟΣ (not sure why Ο seems to have a J embedded in it.
That funny character at its end seems to me to be probably sigma Σ. Then
Peri ΠΕΡΙ, iota tucked under the rho Ρ.
Epsilon Ε
Funny X with dots left & right? Could it be a nomina sacra for Christ?
O followed by Μ ΟΜ
Line 2 pasas πασας
πασας της = all the
tau eta sigma της Pi alpha Pi mu παπμ ΓΡΑ?
Line 3 phi eta mu φημ
kai (kappa w/ slant/cross)
tau eta mu sigma τημς
epsilon, combo of rho & aleph sigma
ερας
Line 4 a combo letter of eta & tau? ητ
(looks like a harp)
upsilon sigma ΥΣ
hōs eta? ὡς η
sigma mu with some combo symbol? εμ
μωεις ?
omega iota stigma ωι ς?
could the end be a form of Moses?
omega iota ωι followed by a number symbol that looks like stigma?
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According to at least 1 source, the first several pages of Genesis are missing from Vaticanus (uncial letters). But somebody in 15th century added the missing pages in a miniscule hand. If so, it is likely that this fancy (distasteful to me) font was inserted as a Superscription. I was checking to see if somebody claimed that Vaticanus OT was the LXX (but apparently no such claim is attached to any ancient Greek OT). Thus far I have been unable to find a transcription of the Superscription in a font I can read nor a translation of it into English. But I figure that some Accordance scholar can do it.
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