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 The ''Didache'' (; ), also known as ''The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations'' (), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise ( ancient church order) written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first or (l ...

''. It was written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056. The

codex The codex (: codices ) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term ''codex'' is now r ...

contains the ''

'', the ''

Epistle of Barnabas The Epistle of Barnabas () is an early Christian Greek epistle written between AD 70 and AD 135. The complete text is preserved in the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, where it appears at the end of the New Testament, following the Book of Revelati ...

'', the

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and the

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, the long version of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch and a list of books of the Hebrew Bible. It was discovered in 1873 by

Philotheos Bryennios Philotheos Bryennios (; 7 April 1833 – November 18, 1917) was a Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Nicomedia, and the discoverer in 1873 of an important manuscript with copies of early Church documents. Life Born in the Tavtalos (Kurtuluş) dist ...

, the

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Nicomedia Nicomedia (; , ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletian who rul ...

, in the collection of the Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulchre in

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. He published the texts of the two familiar

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in 1875, overlooking the ''Didache'', which he found when he returned to the manuscript. The ''Codexs 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 Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima. ...

Adolf Hilgenfeld Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld (2 June 182312 January 1907) was a German Protestant theologian. Biography He was born at Stappenbeck near Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony. He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and ...

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

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Panagios Taphos 54. John Chrysostom: Synopsis of the Testaments; Apostolic Fathers. 1056 A.D. 120 f. Pg. 16 ft.
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Jerusalem, Patriarchikê bibliothêkê, Panaghiou Taphou 054
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''Bryennios, Philotheos'' {{Authority control 11th-century biblical manuscripts Hierosolymitanus Byzantine literature New Testament apocrypha Publications of patristic texts