Manuscripts from the Tischendorff Collection
Palimpsests
Service Books
- Liturgical Collection (Codex Sinaiticus Liturgicus). 8th-9th cent.
- Prophetologion, fragment. 10th-11th cent.
Gospels
Greek-Syriac-Georgian Palimpsest. Fragment. 7th-10th cent.
Parchment. 1 fol. 15х19,5. Palimpsest.
Lower text is Greek: Triodion, fragment. 7th-early 8th cent. Small uncial script.
Medium text - Syriac: the text is not identified as only individual letters are visible. 7th-8th cent. (no later than 9th cent.).
Upper text is Georgian: fragment of a hagiographic work. 10th cent. The lines of the Georgian text are perpendicular to the lines of the Syriac and Greek texts.
Palimpsest entered the IPL in 1858.
РНБ. Греч. 8. Fol. 1.
Parchment. 1 fol. 15х19,5. Palimpsest.
Lower text is Greek: Triodion, fragment. 7th-early 8th cent. Small uncial script.
Medium text - Syriac: the text is not identified as only individual letters are visible. 7th-8th cent. (no later than 9th cent.).
Upper text is Georgian: fragment of a hagiographic work. 10th cent. The lines of the Georgian text are perpendicular to the lines of the Syriac and Greek texts.
Palimpsest entered the IPL in 1858.
РНБ. Греч. 8. Fol. 1.
"Sinaitic Palimpsest". 10th-13th cent.
Parchment and paper. 119 fols. 19,0 15,0. Palimpsest.
Lower text is Greek and Slavic: fragments of liturgical text. 10th and 11th cent. (minuscle script), 11-12th cent. (Cyrillic, uncial script).
Upper text is Slavic: A collection containing the Book of Needs (a short Service Book), the Pandektai by Nikon of the Black Mountain (a collection of conciliar and patristic writings on canon law for wandering monks), apocrypha, excerpts from Lives of Saints, discourses and sermons. 12-13th cent. (Middle Bulgarian version), 13 cent. (Old Russian version, uncial script).
Parts of this manuscript are housed in the National Library of Russia (Q. item.I.63 - 6 fol.; Q. item.I.64 - 8 fol.) and in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (Слав. № 18/N and № 34). The manuscript entered the IPL in 1858-1859.
РНБ. Греч. 70. Fol. 4 v.-5.
Parchment and paper. 119 fols. 19,0 15,0. Palimpsest.
Lower text is Greek and Slavic: fragments of liturgical text. 10th and 11th cent. (minuscle script), 11-12th cent. (Cyrillic, uncial script).
Upper text is Slavic: A collection containing the Book of Needs (a short Service Book), the Pandektai by Nikon of the Black Mountain (a collection of conciliar and patristic writings on canon law for wandering monks), apocrypha, excerpts from Lives of Saints, discourses and sermons. 12-13th cent. (Middle Bulgarian version), 13 cent. (Old Russian version, uncial script).
Parts of this manuscript are housed in the National Library of Russia (Q. item.I.63 - 6 fol.; Q. item.I.64 - 8 fol.) and in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (Слав. № 18/N and № 34). The manuscript entered the IPL in 1858-1859.
РНБ. Греч. 70. Fol. 4 v.-5.
Liturgical Collection (Codex Sinaiticus Liturgicus). 8th-9th cent.
Parchment. 69 fol. 19,5 14,5. Uncial script. Without a beginning.
РНБ. Греч. 44. Fol. 36 v.-37.
Parchment. 69 fol. 19,5 14,5. Uncial script. Without a beginning.
РНБ. Греч. 44. Fol. 36 v.-37.
Prophetologion, fragment. 10th-11th cent.
Parchment. 4 fol. 28,4 21,0. Uncial script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 8). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883. (РНБ. Греч. 324).
РНБ. Греч. 52. Fol. 3 v.-4.
Parchment. 4 fol. 28,4 21,0. Uncial script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 8). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883. (РНБ. Греч. 324).
РНБ. Греч. 52. Fol. 3 v.-4.
Gospel of Matthew, fragment (21:19-24). 6th-7th cent.
Parchment. 1 fol. 34,5 26,0. Uncial script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 11). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883г. (РНБ. Греч. 278). This leaf entered the IPL in 1858.
РНБ. Греч. 12. Fol. 1.
Parchment. 1 fol. 34,5 26,0. Uncial script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 11). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883г. (РНБ. Греч. 278). This leaf entered the IPL in 1858.
РНБ. Греч. 12. Fol. 1.
Gospels of Matthew, and Mark. 9th-10th cent.
Parchment. 121 fol. 21,0 16,8. Minuscle and uncial scripts.
From the manuscript of the Sinai Monastery of St Catherine, a fragment of which is kept in Oxford (Bodl. Misc. Gr. № 310). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883. (РНБ. Греч. 282).
Греч. 54. Fol. 1 v.-2. Таблицы канонов.
Parchment. 121 fol. 21,0 16,8. Minuscle and uncial scripts.
From the manuscript of the Sinai Monastery of St Catherine, a fragment of which is kept in Oxford (Bodl. Misc. Gr. № 310). Another sheet of the manuscript entered the IPB as part of the collection of Bishop Porfyrius (Uspensky) in 1883. (РНБ. Греч. 282).
Греч. 54. Fol. 1 v.-2. Таблицы канонов.
Gospel of Mark, fragment (8:3-9:50). 12th cent.
Parchment. I+20 fol. 19,0 15,2. Minuscle script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 194).
РНБ. Греч. 99. Fol. 4 v.-5.
Parchment. I+20 fol. 19,0 15,2. Minuscle script.
A major part of the manuscript is now in St. Catherine's Monastery Library (№ 194).
РНБ. Греч. 99. Fol. 4 v.-5.