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The chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian is at the southwest corner of the Sinai basilica. The holy table faces east, but the iconostasion is aligned with the wall of the basilica. The panel beneath the icon of the All-holy Theotokos depicts a repeating pattern of rosebuds. The iconostasion dates from the eighteenth century. […] Saint Ignatius, known as Θεοφόρος, ‘the God-bearer’, was bishop of Antioch. Around the year 107, he was arrested and sent to Rome, condemned to death by being thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheatre. At two stopping points, he was able to write letters to various churches. In his Epistle to the Ephesians he […] An icon lamp catches the sunlight at the noonday reading of the Third and Sixth Hours. The icon lamp in the Chapel of Saint James, First Bishop of Jerusalem, at the beginning of Mesonyktikon, the Midnight Office. When pilgrims enter the Sinai basilica, they light candles in prayers for those who are living, or in commemoration of those who have gone to their rest. ‘They bee great offerers of Candles’, as the English merchant Richard Chancellor wrote when he visited Moscow in 1553. (The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqves and Discoveries […] Sinai Greek 172, folio 67 recto, the beginning of the Gospel according to Mark. Ἀρχὴ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. […] Sinai Greek 172, folio 66 verso, the illumination of the holy Evangelist Mark. Sinai Greek 172, folio 11 recto, the beginning of the Gospel according to Matthew. Βίβλος γενέσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, υἱοῦ Δαβίδ, υἱοῦ Ἀβραάμ. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. […] Sinai Greek 172 is a manuscript of the Four Gospels. On folio 197 recto we read the following inscription. + Ἐτελειώθη σὺν θ(ε)ῶ ἡ θεόπνευστος βίβλος αὕτη· διὰ χειρὸς ζαχαρίου πρεσ(βυ)τ(έρου) πανελαχίστου, του πραιτωριότ(ου)· ἐξεπιτροπῆς θεοδώρου μ(ε)γ(άλου) ὑπάτ(ου) καὶ τεποτ(ηρη)τ(οῦ) κολωνείας τοῦ γαβρᾶ· καὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ συνεύνου εἰρήνης· πρὸς σκέπην καὶ διατήρησιν καὶ […] Sinai Greek New Finds Majuscule 2 is a manuscript of the Epistles of Saint Paul in parallel Greek and Arabic, dated to the early tenth century. On folio seven recto, we read in Galatians 1:3-4, ‘Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself […] |
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