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December 4th, on Saint’s Barbara Day

the Holy Manuscript

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States in Drama, in the Holy Liturgy:

December 4th, Saint’s Barbara Day

A visit to the Holy Monastery of Virgin Mary Eikosifinissa

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The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Returns 1100-year-old manuscript to the Greek Orthodox Church

The manuscript belongs to the Holy Monastery of Panagia Eikosifinissa

City EventsHis Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States and Dr James Nieman, president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) return the manuscrpt to the Bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Drama, Pavlos and the Holy Monastery.

The Manuscript

http://www.csntm.org/manuscript/View/GA_1424?filter=1

The story of the old manuscript The manuscript, known among biblical scholars as Codex 1424, was one of

many manuscripts taken in 1917 from the Kosinitza Monastery near the city of Drama, in Greece, following the Balkan Wars of five years earlier.

It found its way to a European book dealer and was purchased in 1920 by Levi Franklin Gruber, who later became president of Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, one of LSTC’s predecessor schools. Gruber bequeathed the codex to his widow, and the seminary later received his entire rare book collection from her. Earlier this year, representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church contacted President Nieman seeking voluntary return of the manuscript, to which the seminary readily agreed.

Greek manuscripts that contain the entire New Testament are rare. According to biblical scholar Kurt Aland, there are only 60 such manuscripts in world collections. Codex 1424, written in the ninth century A.D., is the oldest complete minuscule manuscript (written in cursive script) of the Greek New Testament in the world. Moreover, the order of the books of the New Testament is unusual. For example, the book of Revelation, today located at the end of the New Testament, precedes the Pauline letters. The manuscript was copied by a monk named Sabas, and other monks three centuries later added excerpts from John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and others as commentaries in the margins of the pages.

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States receives the manuscript in a ceremony at LSTC, 1100 East 55th Street, Chicago, by Dr

James Nieman, president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC).

• Source of material• Holy Metropolis of Drama• http://www.imdramas.gr/• The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

• http://www.lstc.edu/