Claim: Ephraemi Rescriptus, which is a palimpsest, contains text from the Old and New Testament of the Bible dating back to the year 450 and is currently lodged at the Bibliotheque National de France.
Evidence: Manuscripts of this sort, consisting of recycled pages, are known as palimpsests. Wettstein only occasionally examined the text of the Old Testament but he did not publish them. Various editors made occasional extracts from the manuscript but Tischendorf was the first who read it completely (Old and New Testament). c. 450 Bibliothèque nationale de France