We give below the most important results of our work of deciphering Armenian and Georgian palimpsests kept in the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, Egypt, for the Sinai Palimpsests Project. The second fragment of CPA NF Fragment 16 seems to have been washed (the first fragment is not palimpsest). In fact, the CPA fragment is the palimpsest undertext (7 th century?) and what appears today as the palimpsest layer is the end of a Georgian manuscript (10th century), which is in fact the upper layer: something probably unique, when the undertext appears as the uppertext!

Sin. geo. NF 84 and NF 90, two fragmentary pieces of the same manuscript, are a double palimpsest, both layers in Georgian; the older layer is largely part of a khanmeti mravaltavi (homiliary/panegyrikon) from the 6th century; it is different from the already known fragments of Georgian mravaltavi. The intermediate layer is a heavily mixed khanmet’i/haemet’i Psalter (end of the 7th–beginning of the 8th century). This mixing of languages had been hitherto unknown.

Sin. syr. NF Fragment 76 gives us an extract of the Life of St. Antony by Athanasius in Armenian erkatagir (7 th–8th century?); it is the earliest fragment known today.

All these decipherings are absolutely new and were possible only within the framework of the Sinai Palimpsests Project. They shed more light on the books used quite early by the monks in Palestine and on Mount Sinai, mainly books of various liturgical and ascetical contents.