Codex Climaci Rescriptus

Uncial 0250
New Testament manuscript
NameCodex Climaci Rescriptus
TextGospel of Matthew 21:27–31
Date6th century
ScriptSyriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic
FoundSaint Catherine's Monastery Sinai
Now atThe Green Collection
CiteA. S. Lewis, Codex Climaci rescriptus, Horae semiticae, VIII (1909), p. 42; Christa Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Gospels, Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIA (1998), p. 21.
Size23 cm by 18.5-15.5 cm
Typemixed
CategoryIII

Codex Climaci Rescriptus is a collective palimpsest manuscript consisting of several individual manuscripts underneath, Christian Palestinian Aramaic texts of the Old and New Testament as well as two apocryphal texts, including the Dormition of the Mother of God, and is known as Uncial 0250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) with a Greek uncial text of the New Testament and overwritten by Syriac treatises of Johannes Climacus (hence name of the codex): the scala paradisi and the liber ad pastorem.[1] Paleographically the Greek text has been assigned to the 7th or 8th century, and the Aramaic text to the 6th century. It originates from Saint Catherine's Monastery going by the New Finds of 1975.[2] Formerly it was classified for CCR 5 and CCR 6 as lectionary manuscript, with Gregory giving the number 1561 to it.[3]

  1. ^ Sebastian P. Brock, Ktabe mpassqe: Dismembered and Reconstructed Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye 15, 2012, pp. 12–13.
  2. ^ Sinai Palimpsest Project
  3. ^ K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments" (Berlin, New York 1994), p. 40.