Syriac Sinaiticus

The Syriac Sinaiticus or Codex Sinaiticus Syriacus (syrs), known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest and the Old Syriac Gospels is one of the Syriac versions of the Bible. The Syriac Sinaiticus is a late-4th- or early-5th-century manuscript of 179 folios, containing a nearly complete translation of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament into Syriac, which have been overwritten by a vita (biography) of female saints and martyrs with a date corresponding to AD 697. This palimpsest is the oldest copy of the Gospels in Syriac, one of two surviving manuscripts (the other being the Curetonian Gospels) that are conventionally dated to before the Peshitta, the standard Syriac translation. The Syriac palimpsest [catalogued as Sinai, Syr. 30] was discovered by a Western researcher at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in 1892.

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