Washington Twelve Prophets Code

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Washington Manuscript V

The Book of the Twelve Prophets of Washington (also Washington manuscript V , Siglum W after Rahlfs) is a papyrus manuscript in Greek from the middle of the 3rd century. It contains 33 sheets with the text of the twelve little prophets of the Old Testament from Amos 1.10 to Malachi with some lacunae (gaps). Of Hosea and the beginning of Amos few letters have survived. The sheets have a format of 29.5 × 14 cm. The text is written in uncials . Notes and translations in Coptic were added at a later date.

The manuscript was acquired by missionary David Askren in Egypt in the 19th century. In 1916 it was bought by industrialist Charles Lang Freer (with the support of JP Morgan ). Until 1948 it was the oldest known manuscript of the twelve prophets in Greek. It is now in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC with inventory no. F1916.768.

Text output

  • Henry A. Sanders, Carl Schmidt , The Minor Prophets in the Freer Gallery and the Berlin fragments of Genesis , New York 1927 online
  • Henry A. Sanders, Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of the Minor Prophets in the Freer Gallery: And the Berlin fragments of Genesis , Ann Arbor, Mich .: The University of Michigan, 1927, 70 p. Online

literature

  • Frederic G. Kenyon : Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts. 4th edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1939 ( X ).

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