Codex Freerianus
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 Institutionin Washington, with the shelf number 06.275.
According to Guglielmo Cavallo, 016 comes from the Nitrian Desert.
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Description
The codex contains portions of the Pauline epistles except Romans. It contains the Epistle to the Hebrews. The Hebrews follows 2 Thessalonians. The manuscript is generally dated from the fifth century, though a few have suggested the sixth century instead. The codex originally contained about 210 parchment leaves (25 cm by 20 cm), of which only 84 survive in a fragmentary condition. The text of the codex contains many lacunae. It was written in one column per page, 30 lines per column. The letters and words are not separated from one another, as it is in scriptio-continua.
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