Codex Hierosolymitanus

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Codex Hierosolymitanus (also called the Bryennios manuscript or the Jerusalem Codex, often designated simply "H" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century Greek manuscript, written by an unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056. Its designation of "Jerusalem" recalls its place of discovery by Philotheos Bryennios in 1873 at the library of the Patriarchate at Jerusalem, where it remains in the monastery of the Holy Sepulchre, see also Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The codex contains the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the two epistles 1 Clement and 2 Clement, the long version of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch, and a list of books of the Bible following the order of John Chrysostom. It was discovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, the metropolitan of Nicomedia, at 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.