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Résumé :

The codex Schøyen Collection MS 575 is a palimpsest consisting of eighteen parchment folios. The upper layer is in Syriac script, the lower in Armenian. This manuscript is part of an original codex once housed in the library of St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai and now dismembered into four parts preserved in four separate locations. The Armenian lower layer is of particular significance, for it preserves the only witness of the unedited Armenian translation of John Chrysostom's Commentary on the Psalms, which predates any extant witness of the original Greek. Dated by Nersēs Akinean to the sixth century, the Armenian layer preserves remarkable palaeographical and codicological features. Together with other membra disiecta, it may be considered to be one of the oldest extant complete Armenian manuscripts. Keywords : Armenian Studies, Patristics, Manuscript Studies, Syriac Studies, Book of Psalms, John Chrysostom, Palimpsests