New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Freerianus |
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Sign | I |
Text | Pauline epistles, Hebrews |
Date | c. 450 |
Script | Greek |
Found | Egypt (purchased by Charles Lang Freer) |
Now at | Smithsonian Institution |
Size | 25 cm by 20 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | II |
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]