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The text is one of only two Syriac manuscripts of the separate gospels that possibly predate the standard Syriac version, the Peshitta; the other is the Sinaitic Palimpsest. A fourth Syriac text is the harmonized Diatessaron. The Curetonian Gospels and the Sinaitic Palimpsest appear to have been translated from independent Greek originals. [4]
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.
Pages in category "Syriac manuscripts" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Curetonian Gospels; N. National Library of Russia, Codex Syriac ...
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.
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.