Editing Codex Hierosolymitanus

{{short description|11th-century Greek manuscript}}
[[File:Didache Titulos.jpg|thumb|First lines of H54 (54th page of Codex Hierosolymitanus), showing the beginning of the ''[[Didache]]'', and the Greek text transcribed below.]]
'''Codex Hierosolymitanus''' (also called the '''Bryennios manuscript''' or the '''Jerusalem Codex''', often designated simply "'''H'''" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century (1056) Greek manuscript. It contains copies of a number of early Christian texts including the only complete edition of the ''[[Didache]]''. It was written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056.

The [[codex]] contains the ''[[Didache]]'', the ''[[Epistle of Barnabas]]'', the [[First Epistle of Clement]] and the [[Second Epistle of Clement]], the long version of the [[letters of Ignatius of Antioch]] and a [[Biblical canon|list of books of the Hebrew Bible]]. 

It was discovered in 1873 by [[Philotheos Bryennios]], the [[Metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] of [[Nicomedia]], in the collection of the [[Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulchre]] in [[Constantinople]]. He published the texts of the two familiar [[Epistles of Clement]] in 1875, overlooking the ''Didache'', which he found when he returned to the manuscript.

The ''Codex'''s list of books of the Hebrew Bible has often been taken for the first written Canon of the Old Testament, dating from the early second century. However, Luke J Stevens argues that the list has notable parallels in spelling of the books and in its section title to the eighth-century [[Doctrina Patrum]], which is itself dependent on [[Eusebius]].<ref name="Stevens2020">{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Luke J |title=The Bryennios List and its Origin |journal=[[The Journal of Theological Studies]] |date=October 2020 |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=703–706 |doi=10.1093/jts/flaa095 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/71/2/703/6299098 |access-date=22 September 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

[[Adolf Hilgenfeld]] used ''Codex Hierosolymitanus'' for his first printed edition of the previously almost unknown ''Didache'' in 1877.

==References==
*{{cite book | last=Milavec | first=A. | title=The Didache: Faith, Hope, & Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50-70 C.E. | publisher=Newman Press | series=The Newman Press significant scholarly studies | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-8091-0537-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=17v6sT1l-aYC&pg=PA54 | access-date=2021-05-22 | page=54}}
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279389694-jo/?sp=1&st=list Panagios Taphos 54. John Chrysostom: Synopsis of the Testaments; Apostolic Fathers. 1056 A.D. 120 f. Pg. 16 ft.] Complete set of digital images
* [http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/cote/35291/ Jerusalem, Patriarchikê bibliothêkê, Panaghiou Taphou 054] Description, List of Contents
* [http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.v.cdiii.htm The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge] ''Bryennios, Philotheos''
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Biblical manuscripts|Hierosolymitanus]]
[[Category:Byzantine literature]]
[[Category:New Testament apocrypha]]
[[Category:Publications of patristic texts]]