(cf. PG 56.313-86): fol. la-38b5
Introduction 3. 1 Clement: fol. 51b-70a 4. 2 Clement: fol. 70a-76a 5. A list of the opopara tup (3l/3ALccp nap efSpaiocq
("names of the books of the Hebrews"), with the Hebrew and Aramaic titles in Greek transcription, followed by the Greek title of the respective book: fol. 76a6 6. Didache: fol. 76a-80b 3. The Direct Tradition a.The Bryennios Manuscript (H) Sometimes in antiquity the Didache (as we have seen in the preceding sections) was altogether forgotten (as in the West), and sometimes (as in the East) only a rather indirect knowledge of it was retained; its confusion with the Apostolic Constitutions shows that the writing itself was no longer familiar.1 Therefore it was a first-class sen sation when, at the end of the nineteenth century, an (almost) complete text of the Didache surfaced in a Byzantine manuscript — a text that attracted the interest of researchers at its first publication and introduced a new era in the history of the Didache's influence. The discoverer of the manuscript was the Byzantine metro politan Philotheos Bryennios.
7. The letter of Maria of Cassoboloi to Ignatius of Antioch: fol. 81a-82a 8. Twelve letters of Ignatius (recensio longior): fol.
82a-120a; the text of the letters of Ignatius is fol lowed by the colophon (see above) Finally, there is:
9. a discussion of the genealogy of Jesus: fol.
120a-120b.
The text of the Didache is thus found in folios 76a80b. Bryennios published the Didache text in 1883, ten years after the discovery of the manuscript.7 The whole manuscript was transferred in 1887 to the Greek patriar chate of Jerusalem, where it remains today (under the signature Kd>8. na:rp. 54).8
Bryennios,2 born in Constantinople in 1833, studied theology in East and West, and then became a teacher in the theological schools of the Byzantine Church. In 1875 he became metropolitan of Serrae in Macedonia, and in 1877 transferred to Nicomedia. In 1873 he found, in the library of the Monastery of the Holy Sepulchre
("Jerusalem Monastery") in Constantinople, a parch ment manuscript of 120 leaves, bound in leather. It turned out to be a manuscript collection dated by the scribe, who calls himself Aewp vordpLoq Kai dXe'irrjq
("Leon the notary and sinner"),3 in colophon folio 120a.
He completed the manuscript on Tuesday, 11 June 1056 (of our reckoning). The manuscript is written in a care ful and handsome minuscule script.4 Only one hand is discernible, and obvious mistakes in orthography are relatively few.
The Didache text begins at folio 67a, line 20, with the superscription: bidaxp tcoe 5u>5ei<a dnoaroXup ("teach ing of the twelve apostles"). A "second" superscription begins at line 21 (preceded by an initial A): Aibaxp
Kvpiov 8cd tup 5w5ei<a dnooToXup rolq e&peocp ("the Lord's teaching through the twelve apostles to the nations"). The text then continues on the same line with odoi 8vo ("two ways").
The end of the Didache text is not contained in H. The situation9 is this. The scribe filled each page with 23 lines of text, but folio 80b breaks off in the middle of This manuscript contains:
1. Ps.-Chrysostom Synopsis Veteris et Novi Testamenti (cf. PG 56.313-86): fol. la-38b5 2. Epistle of Barnabas: fol. 39a-51b 6 On this, cf. Jean-Paul Audet, "A Hebrew-Aramaic
List of Books of the Old Testament in Greek Transcription,"/TS, n.s. 1 (1950) 135-54; Charles
C. Torrey, "Ein griechisch transkribiertes und interpretiertes hebraisch-aramaisches Verzeichnis der
Bucher des Alten Testaments aus dem 1.
Jahrhundert n. Chr. (aus dem Englischen iibersetzt 1 The reason for this is probably that this once highly respected writing was not included within the canon. On this, cf. the remarks of Rordorf and Tuilier, Doctrine, 11-12.
2 See the autobiographical note in Schaff, Church Manual, 289-96.
3 The name "Leon," however, is uncertain. Cf. the photograph of the colophon in Schaff, Church
Manual, 6.
4 Details in Bryennios, Ai5a\f ce'-ccf 5 For this synopsis, cf. Bardenhewer, Geschichte, 3.352;
Altaner and Stuiber, Patrologie, 328; Quasten, Patrology, 3.472. und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Otto EiBfeldt)," ThLZ 77 (1952) 249-54.
7 Editio princeps: Bryennios, AidaxV8 There is a photocopy in the appendix to Harris,
Teaching.
9 On this whole subject, see Audet, Didache, 73-74.