Codex Climaci Rescriptus
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. 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. Formerly it was classified for CCR 5 and CCR 6 as lectionary manuscript, with Gregory giving the number ℓ 1561 to it.
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Name | Codex Climaci Rescriptus |
|---|---|
| Text | Gospel of Matthew 21:27–31 |
| Date | 6th century |
| Script | Syriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic |
| Found | Saint Catherine's Monastery Sinai |
| Now at | The Green Collection |
| Cite | A. 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. |
| Size | 23 cm by 18.5-15.5 cm |
| Type | mixed |
| Category | III |