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Excerpt from The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. 2: I Chronicles-Tobit
Of the 209 leaves which have survived the wreck of this great ms. Bible, the first 64 contain fragments of the LXX. Of these 19 belong to Job, 6 to Proverbs, 8 to Ecclesiastes, 7 to the Wisdom of Solomon, 23 to Sirach, whilst of Canticles only one leaf remains. The Old and New Testament portions of the ms. Appear to have been written by different but contemporary hands.
This ms., as its title denotes, is a palimpsest. In the twelfth century the original writing throughout the Codex was washed out by a scribe who afterwards wrote over it in a cursive hand a Greek translation of certain homilies and other works of Ephraim, the Syrian deacon.
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