Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus

Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus, mostly originating in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai from Sin. Georg. 34; Tsagareli 81,[1] is an accumulation of nineteen Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest manuscripts containing Old Testament, Gospel and Epistles pericopes of diverse Lectionaries, among them two witnesses of the Old Jerusalem Lectionary,[2] various unidentified homilies and two by John Chrysostom, hagiographic texts as the Life of Pachomios, the Martyrdom of Philemon Martyrs, and the Catecheses by Cyril of Jerusalem.[3] The palimpsests manuscripts are recycled parchment material that were erased and reused by the tenth century Georgian scribe Ioane-Zosime for overwriting them with homilies and a Iadgari (979-980 AD). Part of the parchment leaves (Sin. Georg. 34) had been brought by him from the Monastery of Saint Sabas, south of Jerusalem in the Kidron Valley, when he moved to St Catherine's Monastery and became there librarian.[4][5][6] In the nineteenth century most of the codex was removed from the monastery at two periods. C. Tischendorf took two thirds in 1855 and 1857 with the Codex Sinaiticus to St Peterburg and handed it over to the Imperial Library, now the National Library of Russia,[7][8][9][10][11][12] and the remaining third left on a clandestine route [so-called collection of Dr Friedrich Grote (1862-1922)] and found its way into various European and later also into US collections, at present in a Norwegian collection.[13][14][15][5][3][16] From the New Finds of 1975 in the Monastery of Saint Catherine missing folios of some of the underlying manuscripts could be retrieved (Sinai, Georgian NF 19; 71),[17][5][3][18] with one connected to Princeton, Garrett MS 24.[19]

  1. ^ Partially and previously Tsagareli 81 according to the catalogue by Alexander Tsagareli, Katalog Gruzinskikh rukopisej Sinajskogo monastyrja, Palestinskij Sbornik IV, 1 (St Petersburg, 1888), pp. 193–240.
  2. ^ Christa Müller-Lessler, The Early Jerusalem Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th–7th Century AD): Lections Containing Unattested Old and New Testament Pericopes in Unpublished Palimpsests (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32; Georgian NF 19, 71), Le Muséon 136.1, 2023, pp. 201–263
  3. ^ a b c Christa Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus (CSRG/O/P/S). A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, Le Muséon 127, 2014, pp. 263–309.
  4. ^ Zaza Aleksidze, Mzekala Shanidze, Lily Khevsuriani, and Michael Kavtaria, The New Finds of Sinai. Catalogue of Georgian Manuscripts Discovered in 1975 at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai (Athens, 2005).
  5. ^ a b c Sebastian P. Brock, Sinai: a Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic, in Dali Chitunashvili (ed.), The Caucasus between East and West (Tbilisi, 2012), pp. 482–494.
  6. ^ Sebastian P. Brock, Ktabe Mpassqe. Dismembered and Reconstituted Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye. Journal of Syriac Studies 15, 2012, pp. 8–10.
  7. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et Profana ex Oriente et Occidente allata: sive, Notitia codicum graecorum, arabicorum, syriacorum, copticorum, hebraicorum, aethiopicorum, latinorum, cum exceptis multis maximan partem graecis et triginta quinque scripturarum antiquissimarum speciminibus (Leipzig, 1855) https://archive.org/download/anecdotasacraet00tiscgoog/anecdotasacraet00tiscgoog.pdf
  8. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Notitia Editionis Codicis Sinaitici (Leipzig, 1960) https://archive.org/download/notitiaeditionis00tisc/notitiaeditionis00tisc.pdf
  9. ^ M. F. Brosset, Note sur un manuscrit géorgien de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique et provenant de M. Tischendorf, Mélanges Asiatiques 3, 1858, pp. 264-280. [1]
  10. ^ Incompletely edited by J. P. N. Land, Anecdota Syriaca IV (Leiden, 1875), pp. 185–189.
  11. ^ N. Pigoulewski, Manuscrits syriaques bibliques de Léningrad (suite), Revue Biblique 46, 1937, p. 556.
  12. ^ Olga V. Vasilieva, Christian Manuscripts of the East in the National Library of Russia, Manuscripta Orientalia 13, 2007, p. 29.
  13. ^ Hans Peter Kraus, Monumenta codicum manuscriptorum. An exhibition catalogue of manuscripts of the 6th to the 17th centuries from the libraries of the monasteries of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai; Monte Cassino; Lorsch; Nonantola (New York, 1974).
  14. ^ Hugo Duensing, Neue christlich-palästinische-aramäische Fragmente, NAWG, phil.-hist. Kl. 9 (Göttingen, 1944).
  15. ^ E. G. Sørenssen, M. Schoyen, The Schøyen Collection: checklist of Western manuscripts 1-2000, 13th edition (Oslo, 1995), pp. 10–11.
  16. ^ Peter Tarras, From Sinai to Munich: Tracing the History of a Fragment from the Grote Collection, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 6, 2020, pp. 73–90.
  17. ^ Sebastian P. Brock, Catalogue of the “New Finds” in St. Catherine Monastery, Sinai (Athens, 1995).
  18. ^ https://sinai.library.ucla.edu Sinai Palimpsest Project
  19. ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Piecing together Christian Palestinian Aramaic Texts under Georgian Manuscripts (St Petersburg, NLR, Syr. 16; Sinai, Georg. NF 19, 71; Oslo, Martin Schøyen MS 35, 37; Princeton, Garrett MS 24; Göttingen, Syr. 17, 19, 23, 25), Digital Kartvelology 1, 2022, pp. 35–40. https://adh.ge/en/digital-kartvelology.