Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus
Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus mostly originating in Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai is an accumulation of sixteen or even eighteen Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest manuscripts containing Old Testament, Gospel and Epistles pericopes of diverse Lectionaries, various unidentified homilies and one by John Chrysostom, hagiographic texts as the Life of Pachomios, the Martyrdom of Philemon Martyrs, and the Catecheses by Cyril of Jerusalem. The 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 had been brought by him from the Monastery of Saint Sabas, south of Jerusalem, when he moved to St Catherine’s Monastery and became there librarian. In the nineteenth century most of the codex was removed from the monastery at two periods. C. Tischendorf took two thirds in 1855 with the Codex Sinaiticus to St Peterburg, now stored in The National Library of Russia, and the remaining third left on a clandestine route and found its way into various European and later also into US collections. Only 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).
Q185362
Saint Catherine’s Monastery
LOC
Q36755
Sinai
LOC
Q60790119
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
MEDIA
Q274076
palimpsest
Concept
Q19786
Old Testament
Concept
Q34274
Gospel
Concept
Q215495
Epistles
Concept
Q284465
Lectionaries
Concept
Q43706
John Chrysostom
MISC
Q208628
hagiographic
Concept
Q6498826
Martyrs
Concept
Q298654
Cyril of Jerusalem
PER
Q226697
parchment
Concept
Q8108
Georgian
Concept
Q3175144
Ioane-Zosime
PER
Q1059946
Monastery of Saint Sabas
LOC
Q1218
Jerusalem
LOC
Q76743
C. Tischendorf
PER
Q152962
Codex Sinaiticus
ORG
Q267566
National Library of Russia
LOC
Q185362
Monastery of Saint Catherine
LOC
Q772267
folio
Concept
Q96375208
Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus
UNK
1855-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1855
DATE
1975-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1975
DATE
+979^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
979
NUMBER
-980^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-980
NUMBER
+19^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
19
NUMBER
+71^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
71
NUMBER
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