The second manuscript is a palimpsest discovered by Agnes Smith Lewis at Saint Catherine's Monastery in 1892 at Mount Sinai called the Syriac Sinaiticus, and designated by Syrs. This version was known and cited by Ephrem the Syrian, It is a representative of the Western text-type. Two additional manuscripts of the Old Syriac version of the gospels were published in 2016 by Sebastian Brock and in 2023 by Grigory Kessel, respectively.
