Codex Freerianus

Uncial 016
New Testament manuscript
NameFreerianus
SignI
TextPauline epistles, Hebrews
Datec. 450
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt (purchased by Charles Lang Freer)
Now atSmithsonian Institution
Size25 cm by 20 cm
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryII

Codex Freerianus, designated by I or 016 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1041 (von Soden), also called the Washington Manuscript of the Pauline Epistles, is a 5th-century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum in Greek.

It is named after Charles Lang Freer, who purchased it in Egypt. The Codex is now located in the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, with the shelf number 06.275.[1][2]

According to Guglielmo Cavallo, 016 comes from the Nitrian Desert.[3]

  1. ^ Codex Washingtonianus has number 06.274 in the same Gallery.
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  3. ^ G. Cavallo, Ricerche, pp. 87-88, 93.

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