At four o’clock in the morning we begin Mesonyktikon, the Midnight Office. The icon of Christ on the iconostasion is lit by a single icon lamp. He is vested as the Great High Priest, and crowned as the King of Kings. At the four corners of His throne are the four living creatures beheld […]
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On the final leaf of Greek 165, the scribe wrote two supplicatory prayers. The third inscription is a colophon that reads, Θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον Ἰωάννου πόνος Ῥόσου τὸ ἐπίκλειον, τάχα καὶ θύτου. Sinai manuscript Greek 968 is an Euchologion copied by Bartholomaios Rhosos in Crete in 1426. In the colophon he signs himself […] Sinai Greek 165 is a manuscript of the Four Gospels written on parchment in the middle of the fifteenth century. It is a small manuscript for personal reading, but it also contains rubrics to allow it to be used as a lectionary in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. The Gospel of Saint […] The oldest olive tree in the Sinai garden has been there for centuries. Its trunk has a massive girth. The oldest olive trees produce the best oil. The first olives have been harvested and pressed for oil. Many of the trees are in remote locations, and the olives must be brought out by camels to the nearest road. The olive trees at Arbain are old, and the olives produce a rich oil. The olive trees at Bostane are not […] Manuscript Greek 205 is a lectionary containing the Gospel readings appointed for each day. A large and imposing volume, it was created in Constantinople in the third quarter of the eleventh century. Folio 114 recto displays a headpiece enclosing the title, written in letters of gold. The Gospel according to Luke. The […] The first English translation of Saint Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho was made by Henry Brown, Vicar of Nether-Swell in Gloucestershire. It was printed in two volumes in Oxford in 1755. This beautifully bound copy has a dedicatory inscription on the title page of the first volume, “G H Wheler from the Revd Thomas […] Sinai manuscript Greek New Finds Minuscule 134 is an incomplete copy of the Ladder of Divine Ascent. It is written on parchment, and has been dated to the tenth or eleventh century. Saint John Climacus concludes his great work with a quotation of the last verse of the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, Νυνὶ […] A little later in the morning, the bell tower is in full sun, and the sunlight begins to reach the mountains behind. In October, the first rays of sunlight strike the south side of the bell tower. |
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