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.
The codex is a 146 folio remnant of ten separate manuscripts, eight of which are in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, which have been dated to the 5th or 6th century CE; and three of which are in Greek, which have been dated to the 7th or 8th century CE.
The Greek section contains the text of the four Gospels, with numerous lacunae, on 34 parchment folios (23 by 15.5 cm). Written in two columns per page, 31 lines per page, in uncial letters. According to Ian A. Moir this manuscript contains a substantial record of an early Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels once at Caesarea, which would have been the sister of Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, but is now lost.[8][9] The Christian Palestinian Aramaic texts were read and edited by Agnes Smith Lewis and the Greek texts by Ian A. Moir,.[10][11][12] A few pages remained unidentified until recently.[13] Many of the readings for the Christian Palestinian Aramaic part could be improved for the reeditions by Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff.[14] Two folios are attributed to the Dormition of the Mother of God and were reedited.[15] The missing eighteenth quire could recently be added from the New Finds (1975) in Saint Catherine's Monastery.[16][17][2]
it has ἐξελεύσονται (will go out) instead of ἐκβληθήσονται (will be thrown). This variant is supported only by one Greek manuscript Codex Sinaiticus, by Latin Codex Bobiensis, syrc, s, p, pal, arm, and Diatessaron.[21]
Matthew 8:13
It has additional text (see Luke 7:10): και υποστρεψας ο εκατονταρχος εις τον οικον αυτου εν αυτη τη ωρα ευρεν τον παιδα υγιαινοντα (and when the centurion returned to the house in that hour, he found the slave well) along with א, C, (N), Θ, f1, (33, 1241), g1, syrh.[22]
Matthew 27:35
It has additional text (see John 19:24): Διεμερίσαντο τα ιματια μου εαυτοις, και επι τον ιματισμον μου εβαλον κληρον (they divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots) along with Δ, Θ, f1, f13, 537, 1424.
One folio of the codex was purchased by Agnes Smith Lewis in Cairo in 1895, 89 folios were received from an undisclosed Berlin scholar in 1905, and 48 further ones were acquired in Port Tewfik in 1906.[10][11] One folio was bought by Alphonse Mingana.[23] This folio had been already in the hand of Agnes Smith Lewis in 1895.[10] Eight leaves (Sinai, Syriac NF 38) surfaced among the New Finds in Saint Catherine's Monastery from 1975.[16]
^Sebastian P. Brock, Ktabe mpassqe: Dismembered and Reconstructed Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye 15, 2012, pp. 12–13.
^K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments" (Berlin, New York 1994), p. 40.
^Stig S. Frøyshov, "The Georgian Witness to the Jerusalem Liturgy: New Sources and Studies", in B. Groen, S. Hawkes-Teeples, S. Alexopoulos (eds.), Inquiries into Eastern Christian Worship (Louvain, Peeters 2012), p. 248 n. 6.
^Christa Müller-Kessler, "The Early Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic: Lections Containing Unattested Old Testament Passages (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32)", Le Muséon 136:1–2 (2023), pp. 208–216. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.136.1.3291861
^Friedrich Schulthess, Grammatik des christlich-palästinischen Aramäischen (Tübingen, 1924), pp. 4–5.
^Christa Müller-Kessler, Grammatik des Christlich-Palästinisch-Aramäischen. Teil 1. Schriftlehre, Lautlehre, Formenlehre (Texte und Studien zur Orientalistik 6; Hildesheim, 1991), pp. 16, 28–29.
^A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, vol. I–IIA/B
^ abChrista Müller-Kessler, An Overlooked Christian Palestinian Aramaic Witness of the Dormition of Mary in Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCRIV), Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 16, 2019, pp. 81–98.
^ abSebastian P. Brock, The Syriac New Finds at St. Catherines's Monastery, Sinai, and Their Significance, The Harp 27, 2011, pp. 48–49.
^ abChrista Müller-Kessler, The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1–2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sin. syr. NF M38N), in Claudia Rapp et al. (eds.), New Light on Old Manuscripts (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, 45; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 547), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, pp. 147–170. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW91575s147
^ abChrista Müller-Kessler, The Early Jerusalem Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th–7th Centuries AD): Lections Containing Unattested Old and New Testament Pericopes in Unpublished Palimpsests (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32; Georgian NF 19, 71), Le Muséon 134, 2023, pp. 201–263.
^Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
^C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, p. 1374-1375.
^Hugo Duensing, Zwei christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Fragmente aus der Apostelgeschichte, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 37, 1938, pp. 42–46; Matthew Black, A Palestinian Syriac Leaf of Acts XXI, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 23, 1939, pp. 201–214.
^Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden, Bible Nation. The United States of Hobby Lobby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 28–29 ISBN978-0-691-19170-6
^Matthew Black, A Palestinian Syriac Leaf of Acts XXI, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 23, 1939, pp. 201–214.
Agnes Smith Lewis, Codex Climaci rescriptus, Horae Semiticae, VIII (Cambridge, 1909).
Hugo Duensing, Zwei christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Fragmente aus der Apostelgeschichte, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 37, 1938, pp. 42–46.
Matthew Black, A Palestinian Syriac Leaf of Acts XXI, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 23, 1939, pp. 201–214.
Ian A. Moir, Codex Climaci rescriptus grecus (Ms. Gregory 1561, L), Texts and Studies NS, 2 (Cambridge, 1956).
Christa Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic Old Testament and Apocrypha, A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, I (Groningen, 1997). ISBN90-5693-007-9
Christa Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Gospels, A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIA (Groningen, 1998). ISBN90-5693-018-4
Christa Müller-Kessler and M. Sokoloff, The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Acts of the Apostles and Epistles, A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIB (Groningen, 1998). ISBN90-5693-019-2
Christa Müller-Kessler, An Overlooked Christian Palestinian Aramaic Witness of the Dormition of Mary in Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCRIV), Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 16, 2019, pp. 81–98. https://doi.org/10.21071/cco.v16i0.1101.
Christa Müller-Kessler, The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1–2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sin. syr. NF M38N), in Claudia Rapp, Guilia Rossetto, Jana Grusková, Grigory Kessel (eds.), New Light on Old Manuscripts The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, 45; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 547, (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press, 2023), pp. 147–170. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW91575s147.
Agnes Smith Lewis, A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary containing Lessons from the Pentateuch, Job, Proverbs, Prophets, Acts and Epistles, Studia Sinaitica VI (London, 1895), p. cxxxix.
Bruce M. Metzger, VI. The Palestinian Syriac Version.The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations (Oxford, 1977), pp. 75–82.
Christa Müller-Kessler, Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Its Significance to the Western Aramaic Dialect Group, Journal of the American Oriental Society 119, 1999, pp. 631–636.
Christa Müller-Kessler, Die Frühe Christlich-Palästinisch-Aramäische Evangelienhandschrift CCR1 übersetzt durch einen Ostaramäischen (Syrischen) Schreiber?, Journal for the Aramaic Bible 1, 1999, pp. 79–86.
Alain Desreumaux, L’apport des palimpsestes araméens christo-palestiniens: le case du Codex Zosimi Rescriptus et du Codex Climaci rescriptus’, in V. Somers (ed.), Palimpsestes et éditions de textes: les textes littéraires, Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 56 (Louvain, 2009), pp. 201–211.
Sebastian P. Brock, The Syriac ‘New Finds’ at St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai and Their Significance, The Harp 27, 2011, pp. 39–52.
Sebastian P. Brock, Ktabe mpassqe: Dismembered and Reconstructed Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and Modern, Hugoye 15, 2012, pp. 7–20.
Christa Müller-Kessler, The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1–2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sin. syr. NF M38N), in Claudia Rapp, Guilia Rossetto, Jana Grusková, Grigory Kessel (eds.), New Light on Old Manuscripts The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, 45; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 547, (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press, 2023), pp. 147–170. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW91575s147.
Christa Müller-Kessler, The Early Jerusalem Lectionary Tradition in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (5th–7th Centuries AD): Lections Containing Unattested Old and New Testament Pericopes in Unpublished Palimpsests (Sinai, Greek NF MG 32; Georgian NF 19, 71), Le Muséon 134, 2023, pp. 201–263.
