Codex Hierosolymitanus

The Codex Hierosolymitanus (symbol "H"), also known as the Jerusalem Codex 54 or as Bryennios manuscript, is a Greek manuscript collection from the 11th century. In the older literature it is also called Codex Konstantinopolitanus because he was for a time in Constantinople Opel. There he was probably written by a us closer not known Leo. This provided him with the year 1056. 120 parchment leaves have an octavo of about 19 cm x 15 cm. The text covers per side about 23 rows in a column.

Scope

The Codex includes the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the two Clemens letters, the letter of Mary of Kassobola of Ignatius of Antioch, the long version of the letters of Ignatius and a list of Biblical books in the order in which John Chrysostom it enumerates.

Possession and custody

The manuscript is located under the No. 54 in the library of the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is part of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The writing was probably from the beginning part of the library of the Patriarchate.

Publications

The font was found in 1873 by the Turkish theologian Philo Bryennios, later Metropolitan of Nicomedia, in Constantinople Opel. 1875 published the texts of the two letters Clemens. Adolf Hilgenfeld used the Codex Hierosolymitanus 1877 for the first printed edition of the then virtually unknown Didache.