A rare 12th-century manuscript scribed by Theoktistos that was returned to Greece just a few days ago from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California will be exhibited at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens until the end of October, before it goes back to the Holy Monastery of Dionyssiou on Mount Athos where it belongs. The parchment-bound code was presented to the museum yesterday by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Culture ministry leadership.

The masterpiece was stolen in 1960 from the Holy Monastery of Dionyssiou on Mount Athos and was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in California in 1983, after appearing in private collections. In a description of the exhibit, known as "New Testament Ludwing II 4," the J. Paul Getty wrote: “This Greek-language New Testament, containing the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles of Saint Paul, was made in the Byzantine monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Constantinople. A scribe's inscription near the end of the manuscript declares: "This book was finished by the grace of Christ in the year 6641 [1133 A.D.]...by the hand of the sinner Theoktistos."