Codex Hierosolymitanus (the "Jerusalem Codex", often designated simply "H" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century Greek book, written by an unknown scribe named Leo, who dated it 1056. Its designation of "Jerusalem" recalls its current resting-place, the library of the Patriarchate at Jerusalem in 1887, where it remains in the monastery of the Holy Sepulchre.

The codex contains the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the two epistles 1 Clement and 2 Clement , and the long version of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. 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.

Adolf Hilgenfeld used Codex Hierosolymitanus for his first printed edition of the previously all-but unknown Didache in 1877.

External link

• The Development of the Canon of the New Testament: Codex Hierosolymitanus