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The Curetonian Gospels, designated by the siglum syr cur, are contained in a manuscript of the four gospels of the New Testament in Old Syriac. Together with the Sinaiticus Palimpsest the Curetonian Gospels form the Old Syriac Version, and are known as the Evangelion Dampharshe ("Separated Gospels") in the Syriac Orthodox Church. [1]
The manuscript is dated paleographically to the 5th century. It is called Curetonian Syriac, and is designated by Syr c. [5] The second manuscript is a palimpsest discovered by Agnes Smith Lewis at Saint Catherine's Monastery in 1892 at Mount Sinai called the Syriac Sinaiticus, and designated by Syr s.
Syriac Sinaiticus, folio 82b, Gospel of Matthew 1:1-17. Superimposed, life of Saint Euphrosyne.. The Syriac Sinaiticus or Codex Sinaiticus Syriacus (syr s), known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, of Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai, Syr. 30), or Old Syriac Gospels is a late-4th- or early-5th-century manuscript of 179 folios, containing a nearly complete translation of the four canonical ...
Syriac-language manuscripts of the New Testament include some of the earliest and most important witnesses for textual criticism of the New Testament. [citation needed] Over 350 Syriac manuscripts of the New Testament have survived into the 21st century. [citation needed] The majority of them represent the Peshitta version.
The term Old Syriac may refer to: Old Syriac language - an early stage of the Syriac language; Old Syriac alphabet - an early stage of the Syriac alphabet; Old Syriac Gospels - the Old Syriac version of the New Testament, that predates the standard Peshitta version, represented by two manuscripts: the Curetonian Gospels; the Sinaitic Palimpsest
The history of Christian Translations of the Bible into Syriac language includes: the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac versions (Curetonian and Sinaitic), the Peshitto, the Philoxenian version, the Harklean Version and the recent United Bible Societies' modern Aramaic New Testament. About AD 500 a Christian Palestinian Aramaic version was made.
Syriac Gospels, British Library, Add. 17124; S. British Library Syriac Manuscript Collection This page was last edited on 28 September 2024, at 08:22 (UTC). ...
a partial Syriac text of the Festal Letters of St Athanasius, which was translated into English by Henry Burgess (1854), and published in the Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church; Remains of a very Ancient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac, hitherto unknown in Europe; This came to be known as the Curetonian Gospels after Cureton.