Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus mostly originating in
Saint Catherine’s Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
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Sinai (Sinai, Georg 34; Tsagareli 81) is an accumulation of sixteen or even eighteen
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) was a Western Aramaic languages, Western Aramaic dialect used by the Melkites, Melkite Christian community in Palestine (region), Palestine and Transjordan (region), Transjordan between the fifth and thirteenth ...
palimpsest
In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll
A scroll (from the Old French ''escroe'' or ''escroue''), also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing.
Structure
A scr ...
manuscripts containing
Old Testament
The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...
,
Gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...
and
Epistles
An epistle (; el, ἐπιστολή, ''epistolē,'' "letter") is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter. The epistle genre of letter-writing was common in ancient Egypt as part ...
pericopes of diverse
Lectionaries
A lectionary ( la, lectionarium) is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion. There are sub-types such as a "gospel lectionary" or evangeliary, and ...
, various unidentified homilies and one by