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Codex Hierosolymitanus

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First lines of H54 (54th page of Codex Hierosolymitanus), showing the beginning of the Didache, and the Greek text transcribed below.

Codex Hierosolymitanus (also called the Bryennios manuscript or the Jerusalem Codex, often designated simply "H" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century Greek manuscript. It contains copies of a number of early Christian texts including the only complete edition of the Didache. It was written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056.

The codex contains the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the First Epistle of Clement and the Second Epistle of Clement, the long version of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch and a list of books of the Bible following the order of John Chrysostom.

It was discovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, the metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the collection of the Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulchre in Constantinople. He published the texts of the two familiar Epistles of Clement in 1875, overlooking the Didache, which he found when he returned to the manuscript.

Adolf Hilgenfeld used Codex Hierosolymitanus for his first printed edition of the previously almost unknown Didache in 1877.

References

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  • Milavec, A. (2003). The Didache: Faith, Hope, & Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50-70 C.E. The Newman Press significant scholarly studies. Newman Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-8091-0537-3. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
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