Abstract
The palimpsest manuscript known as Codex Climaci rescriptus, presumably from the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, has just revealed the only direct fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the greatest astronomer of antiquity, Hipparchus of Bithynia (2nd century BC). After presenting the methods used to decipher this palimpsest and the contributions of its contents to the history of written culture in Greek and Roman Egypt, we will examine the possibility of determining the manuscript's compositional milieu from its handwriting.
