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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form   = Uncial
| number = '''032'''
| image  = Codex Washingtonensis W 032.JPG
| isize  = 220
| caption= Painted cover of the Codex Washingtonianus, depicting the evangelists Luke and Mark (7th century)
| name   = Washingtonianus ([[Charles Lang Freer|Freer]] Gospel)
| sign   = W
| text   = [[Gospel]]s
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date   = c. 375–500
| found  = [[Egypt]] (purchased by [[Charles Lang Freer]])
| now at = [[Freer Gallery of Art]]
| cite   = 
| size   = 187 leaves; 20.75 x 13.75&nbsp;cm
| type   = eclectic text-type
| cat    = III
| hand   = 
| note   = unique insertion following [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] 16:14
}}
'''Codex Washingtonianus''', '''Codex Washingtonensis''', '''Codex Freerianus''', also called the ''Washington Manuscript of the Gospels'', ''The Freer Gospel'' and ''The Freer Codex'', is a [[Koine Greek|Greek]] [[uncial]] manuscript of the four [[Gospel]]s, written on [[vellum|parchment]]. It is designated by '''W''' or '''032''' in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering of [[New Testament]] manuscripts, and ε014 in the [[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|von Soden]] numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles ([[palaeography]]), it has been dated to the 4th or 5th century.<ref name="Aland">{{Cite book | last1=Aland | first1=Kurt | author1-link=Kurt Aland | last2=Aland | first2=Barbara | author-link2=Barbara Aland | others=Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | year=1995 | publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]] | location=Grand Rapids | isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>{{rp|113}} The manuscript has some [[Lacuna (manuscripts)|gaps]]. The manuscript was among a collection of manuscripts bought by American industrialist [[Charles Lang Freer]] at the start of the 20th century, and first published by biblical scholar Henry A. Sanders.{{r|sanders}}

It has been described as one of the "more important majuscule manuscripts discovered during the 20th century",{{r|Metzger|p=80}} and "a highly valuable manuscript."{{r|cbamphoux}} In the Gospel of Mark, it shares several distinctive readings with the early 3rd century [[papyrus]], [[Papyrus 45|the Chester Beatty codex of the Gospels and Acts]] ({{papyrus link|45}}).<ref name="Hurtado">{{Cite book | first=Larry W. | last=Hurtado | author-link=Larry W. Hurtado | title=Text-Critical Methodology and the Pre-Caesarean Text: Codex W in the Gospel of Mark | series=Studies and Documents | volume=43 | year=1981 | publisher=Eerdmans | isbn=978-0-8028-1872-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSR_CQXQdtUC&pg=3}}</ref>{{rp|63–66}} It is considered to be the third oldest Gospel parchment [[codex]] in the world.{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=36}}

==Description==
The manuscript is a [[codex]] (precursor to the modern [[book]]), containing most of the text of the four Gospels written on 187 parchment leaves (sized 20.5–21&nbsp;cm by 13–14.5&nbsp;cm), with painted wooden covers.<ref name="cbamphoux">{{Cite book | first1=Léon | last1=Vaganay | first2=Christian-Bernard | last2=Amphoux |author-link2=Christian Amphoux | first3=Jenny | last3=Heimerdinger | title=An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism | page=17 | year=1991 }}</ref> John 1:1-5:11 is a replacement of a presumably damaged folio, and dates to around the 7th century. Mark 15:13-38 and John 14:26-16:7 are lacking.{{r|Metzger|p=80}} The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.{{r|Aland}} The letters are written in a small, slightly sloping uncial hand, using dark-brown ink.{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=37}} The words are written continuously without separation. [[Stress (linguistics)|Accents]] (used to indicate voiced pitch changes) are absent, and the [[Greek diacritics|rough breathing]] mark (utilised to designate vowel emphasis) is written very rarely. There are numerous corrections made by the original copyist and a few corrections dating to the late 5th or 6th century. The copyist has been described as "generally a careful worker", who produced  "extremely few nonsense readings" and had very few "other indicators of careless copying."{{r|Hurtado|p=68}} As with [[Codex Bezae|Codex Bezae (D)]], the Gospels follow in the so-called "Western" order: [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of John|John]], [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]].<ref name="Metzger">{{Cite book | first1=Bruce Manning | last1=Metzger | author-link1=Bruce M. Metzger | first2=Bart D. | last2=Ehrman | author-link2=Bart D. Ehrman | title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration | edition=4 | year=2005 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York; Oxford | isbn=978-0-19-516122-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/TheTextOfNewTestament4thEdit/page/n329/mode/2up }}</ref>{{rp|80}}

The [[nomina sacra]] (special names/words considered sacred in [[Christianity]], abbreviated usually with the first and last letter, and notified with an overline) are employed throughout the manuscript.{{r|sand-facs|p=VI}} The following list is of the [[nominative case]] (''subject'') forms utilised: {{overline|ΘΣ}} (θεος / ''God''); {{overline|ΚΣ}} (κυριος / ''Lord''); {{overline|ΧΡΣ}} (χριστος / ''Christ/Messiah''); {{overline|ΙΣ}} (Ιησους / ''Jesus''); {{overline|ΠΝΑ}} (πνευμα / ''spirit''); {{overline|ΑΝΟΣ}} (ανθρωπος / ''man''); {{overline|ΠΗΡ}} (πατηρ / ''father''); {{overline|ΜΗΡ}} (μητηρ / ''mother''); {{overline|ΥΣ}} (υιος / ''son''); {{overline|ΔΑΔ}},  (Δαυιδ / ''David''; {{overline|ΔΔ}} once); {{overline|ΙΗΛ}}  (Ισραηλ / ''Israel''; {{overline|ΙΣΡΛ}} once).<ref name="sand-facs">{{Cite book | first=Henry A. | last=Sanders | title=Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of the Four Gospels in the Freer Collection | year=1912 | publisher=University of Michigan Press | location=Michigan | url=https://archive.org/details/facsimileofwashi01sand/page/n9/mode/2up | via=archive.org}}</ref>{{rp|VI}}

==Text==
The text of the codex is considered to be an admixture of different text-types. It is a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the [[critical apparatus]] of the Nestle-Aland [[Novum Testamentum Graece]] (a critical edition of the Greek New Testament).{{r|na26|p=58*}} Due to different sections of the text displaying affinities with multiple text-types, the [[codex]] has been hypothesised to have been copied from several different manuscripts, possibly pieced together from manuscripts which survived the persecution of [[Christians]] by the [[Diocletianic Persecution|Emperor Diocletian]].{{r|Metzger|pp=80–81}} The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups. These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: [[Alexandrian text-type|Alexandrian]], [[Western text-type|Western]], and [[Byzantine text-type|Byzantine]].{{r|Metzger|pp=205–230}} The text-types of the different sections are as follows:

* Matthew 1–28; Luke 8:13–24:53 – [[Byzantine text-type]]; 
* Mark 1:1–5:30 – [[Western text-type]], similar to old-Latin Versions; 
* Mark 5:31 – 16:20 – Supposedly [[Caesarean text-type]], nearest to {{papyrus link|45}}; 
* Luke 1:1 – 8:12, and John 5:12 – 21:25 – [[Alexandrian text-type]]; 
* John 1:1 – 5:11 – mixed with some Alexandrian and Western readings. This text was added in the 7th century, probably for replacement of damaged text.{{r|Metzger|p=80}}

The Caesarean text-type mentioned above (initially identified by biblical scholar [[Burnett Hillman Streeter]]) has been contested by several text-critics, such as [[Kurt Aland|Kurt]] and [[Barbara Aland]].{{r|Aland|pp=55–56}} Kurt Aland placed the codex in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category III|Category III]] of his New Testament manuscript classification system.{{r|Aland|p=113}} Category III manuscripts are described as having "a small but not a negligible proportion of early readings, with a considerable encroachment of [Byzantine] readings, and significant readings from other sources as yet unidentified."{{r|Aland|p=335}}

[[Matthew 16:2b–3]] is present and not marked as doubtful or spurious. [[Christ's agony at Gethsemane|Luke 22:43-44]], {{bibleverse|John|5:4}} and the [[John 7:53-8:11|Pericope de adultera]] are not present in the manuscript. It lacks {{bibleverse|Matthew|5:21-22}} (like [[Minuscule 33]]),<ref name="na26">{{Cite book | title=Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece | editor-first1=Kurt | editor-last1=Aland | editor1-link=Kurt Aland | editor-first2=Matthew | editor-last2=Black | editor2-link=Matthew Black | editor-first3=Carlo Maria | editor-last3=Martini | editor3-link=Carlo Maria Martini | editor-first4=Bruce M. | editor-last4=Metzger | editor4-link=Bruce Metzger | editor-first5=Allen | editor-last5=Wikgren | editor5-link=Allen Wikgren | edition=26 | year=1981 | publisher=Deutsche Bibelstiftung | location=Stuttgart | isbn=3-438-051001 | url=https://archive.org/details/novumtestamentum0000unse_o1s0/page/n77/mode/2up | url-access=registration}} (NA26)</ref>{{rp|8}} and {{bibleverse|Luke|19:25}} (as [[Codex Bezae|D]], [[Minuscule 69|69]], some lectionaries, and other manuscripts).<ref name="ubs3">{{Cite book | title=The Greek New Testament | editor-first1=Kurt | editor-last1=Aland | editor1-link=Kurt Aland | editor-first2=Matthew | editor-last2=Black | editor2-link=Matthew Black | editor-first3=Carlo Maria | editor-last3=Martini | editor3-link=Carlo Maria Martini | editor-first4=Bruce Manning | editor-last4=Metzger | editor4-link=Bruce Metzger | editor-first5=Allen | editor-last5=Wikgren | editor5-link=Allen Wikgren | edition=3rd | year=1983 | publisher=United Bible Societies | location=Stuttgart | isbn=9783438051103 }} (UBS3)</ref>{{rp|290}}{{r|na26|p=223}} It includes {{bibleverse|Matthew|23:14}} as in most other manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type.{{r|na26|p=65}}

There is a subscription at the end of the Gospel of Mark, written in semi-cursive from the 5th century: "Holy Christ, be you with your servant Timothy and all of his." The similar note appears in [[Minuscule 579]]. Textual critic [[Hermann von Soden]] cited a number of similar subscriptions in other manuscripts.{{r|sanders|p=2}}

; Notable Readings

{{bibleverse|Matthew|10:12}}
:{{lang|grc|αυτην λεγοντες ειρηνη τω οικω τουτω}} (''...it saying, 'Peace to this house''') - '''W''' {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}}{{sup|2}} [[Codex Bezae|D]] [[Codex Regius (New Testament)|L]] [[Codex Koridethi|Θ]] [[Family 1|ƒ{{sup|1}}]] 1010 it vg{{sup|cl}}
:{{lang|grc|αυτην}} (''...it'') - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=24}}

{{bibleverse|Matthew|23:3}}
:{{lang|grc|τηρειν τηρειται και ποιειται}} (''to observe, observe and do'') - '''W''' [[Uncial 0107|0107]] [[Uncial 0138|0138]] [[Family 13|ƒ{{sup|13}}]] q sy{{sup|p, h}} Majority of manuscripts
:{{lang|grc|ποιήσατε καὶ τηρεῖτε}} - {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}}{{sup|2}} [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]] [[Codex Regius (New Testament)|L]] [[Codex Dublinensis|Z]] [[Codex Koridethi|Θ]] [[Minuscule 892|892]]{{r|na26|p=65}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|1:3}}
:{{lang|grc|πασα φαραγξ πληρωθησεται και παν ορος και βουνος ταπεινωθησεται και εσται παντα τα σκολια εις ευθειαν και η τραχεια εις πεδιον και οφθησεται η δοξα κυριου και οψεται πασα σαρξ το σωτηριον του θεου οτι κυριος ελαλησεν φωνη λεγοντος βοησον και ειπα τι βοησω οτι πασα σαρξ χορτος και πασα η δοξα αυτης ως ανθος χορτου εξηρανθη ο χορτος και το ανθος εξεπεσεν το δε ρημα κυριου μενει εις τον αιωνα}} (''Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and all the bent ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains. And the glory of Yahweh shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God, for Yahweh has spoken. The voice of one saying, "Cry", and I said, "What shall I cry? Because all flesh is grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower fades, but the word of Yahweh remains forever.''; addition of Isaiah 40:4-8, LXX) - '''W''' [[Codex Colbertinus|c]]
:omit - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=88}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|2:3}}
:{{lang|grc|ιδου ανδρες ερχονται προς αυτον βασταζοντες εν κρεβαττω παραλυτικον}} (''Behold, men came to him carrying a paralytic on a bed'') - '''W''' [[Codex Palatinus|e]] [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Bohairic|bo]]{{sup|pt}}
:{{lang|grc|ερχονται φεροντες προς αυτον παραλυτικον αιρομενον υπο τεσσαρων}} (''they came carrying to him a paralytic, being lifted up by four men'') - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=92}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|10:19}}
:{{lang|grc|μη αποστερησης}} (''do not defraud'')
::omit - '''W''' [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]]* [[Codex Cyprius|K]] [[Codex Athous Lavrensis|Ψ]] [[Family 1|ƒ{{sup|1}}]] [[Family 13|ƒ{{sup|13}}]] [[Minuscule 28|28]] [[Minuscule 700|700]] 1010 1079 1242 1546 2148 [[Lectionary 10|'''ℓ''' ''10'']] '''ℓ''' ''950'' '''ℓ''' ''1642'' '''ℓ''' ''1761'' syr{{sup|s}} arm geo
::incl. - Majority of manuscripts{{r|ubs3|p=165}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|9:49}}
:{{lang|grc|πας γαρ πυρι αλισθησεται}} (''for everything shall be seasoned by fire'')  – '''W''' {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}} (εν πυρι / ''with fire'') [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]] [[Codex Regius (New Testament)|L]] [[Codex Sangallensis 48|Δ]] [[Family 1|ƒ{{sup|1}}]] [[Family 13|ƒ{{sup|13}}]] [[Minuscule 28|28]] [[Minuscule 565|565]] [[Minuscule 700|700]] [[Lectionary 260|'''ℓ'''''260'']] sy{{sup|s}} [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Sahidic|sa]]
:{{lang|grc|και πασα θυσια αλι αλισθησεται}} (''and every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt'') - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=121}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|10:48}}
:omit - '''W''' [[Minuscule 1241|1241]]
:incl. - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=125}}

{{bibleverse|Mark|13:2}}
:{{lang|grc|και μετα τριων ημερων αλλος αναστησεται ανευ χειρων}} (''and after three days another will arise'') — '''W''' [[Codex Bezae|D]] it
:omit - Majority of manuscripts{{r|na26|p=133}}

{{bibleverse|Luke|4:17}}
:{{lang|grc|καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ βιβλίον}} (''and opened the book'') - '''W''' [[Codex Alexandrinus|A]] [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]] [[Codex Regius (New Testament)|L]] [[Codex Zacynthius|Ξ]] [[Minuscule 33|33]] [[Minuscule 892|892]] 1195 1241 '''ℓ''' ''547'' sy{{sup|s, h, pal}} [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Sahidic|sa]] [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Bohairic|bo]]
:{{lang|grc|καὶ ἀναπτύξας τὸ βιβλίον}} (''and unrolled the book'') - {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}} [[Codex Bezae|D]]{{sup|c}} [[Codex Cyprius|K]] [[Codex Sangallensis 48|Δ]] [[Codex Koridethi|Θ]] [[Codex Petropolitanus (New Testament)|Π]] [[Codex Athous Lavrensis|Ψ]] [[Family 1|ƒ{{sup|1}}]] [[Family 13|ƒ{{sup|13}}]] [[Minuscule 28|28]] [[Minuscule 565|565]] [[Minuscule 700|700]] 1009 1010 Byz<ref>{{Cite book | first=Bruce Manning | last=Metzger | author-link=Bruce M. Metzger | title=A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament | page=114 | year=2001 | publisher=[[Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft]] | location=Stuttgart}}</ref>{{r|na26|p=164}}

{{bibleverse|Luke|11:19}}
:{{lang|grc|εἰ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω τὰ δαιμόνια}} (''however, if I expel the demons by Beelzeboul...'')
::omit. - '''W''' (singular reading; words likely omitted due to [[homoeoteleuton]], the omission due to similar looking words/letters ({{lang|el|ὅτι λέγετε ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλει}} '''{{lang|el|τὰ δαιμόνια}}'''. {{lang|el|εἰ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω}} '''{{lang|el|τὰ δαιμόνια}}''')
::incl. - Majority of manuscripts

{{bibleverse|Luke|22:43-44}}
:omit - '''W''' {{papyrus link|75}} {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}} [[Codex Alexandrinus|A]] [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]] [[Codex Borgianus|T]] 1071
:incl. - Majority of manuscripts{{r|ubs3|p=305}}

{{bibleverse|Luke|23:34}}a
:{{lang|grc|Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἔλεγεν, Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς· οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν τί ποιοῦσιν}} (''And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do.'')
::omit - '''W''' {{papyrus link|75}} {{larger|{{script|Hebr|[[Codex Sinaiticus|א]]}}}}{{sup|2a}} [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|B]] [[Codex Bezae|D*]] [[Codex Koridethi|Θ]] [[Uncial 070|0124]] 1241 [[Codex Vercellensis|a]] [[Codex Bezae|d]] [[Syriac Sinaiticus|sy{{sup|s}}]] [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Sahidic|sa]] [[Coptic versions of the Bible#Bohairic|bo]]
::incl. - Majority of manuscripts{{r|ubs3|p=308}}

{{bibleverse|John|7:1}}
:{{lang|grc|ου γαρ ειχεν εξουσιαν}} (''for he does not have authority'')) - W a b ff² l r{{sup|1}} sy{{sup|c}}
:{{lang|grc|ου γαρ ηθελεν}} (''for he does not want'') - Majority of manuscripts {{r|ubs3|p=350}}

[[File:Codex Washingtonianus W (032) Mk 16,12-17.JPG|thumb|right|236px|Mark 16:12-17 with the ''Freer Logion'' in 16:14]]

==Freer Logion==
The ending of Mark in this codex is especially noteworthy because it includes a unique insertion after [[Mark 16]]:14, referred to as the  "Freer Logion". <blockquote>Κακεινοι απελογουντο λεγοντες οτι ο αιων ουτος της ανομιας και της απιστιας υπο τον σαταναν εστιν, ο μη εων τα (τον μη εωντα?) υπο των πνευματων ακαθαρτα (-των?) την αληθειαν του θεου καταλαβεσθαι (+ και?) δυναμιν. δια τουτο αποκαλυψον σου την δικαιοσυνην ηδη, εκεινοι ελεγον τω χριστω. και ο χριστος εκεινοις προσελεγεν οτι πεπληρωται ο ὅρος των ετων της εξουσιας του σατανα, ἀλλὰ εγγιζει ἄλλα δεινα. και υπερ ων εγω αμαρτησαντων παρεδοθην εις θανατον ινα υποστρεψωσιν εις την αληθειαν και μηκετι αμαρτησωσιν ινα την εν τω ουρανω πνευματικην και αφθαρτον της δικαιοσυνης δοξαν κληρονομησωσιν.{{r|na26|p=148}}</blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>And they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan, who does not allow the truth and power of God to prevail over the unclean things of the spirits [or: does not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God]. Therefore reveal thy righteousness now" - thus they spoke to Christ. And Christ replied to them, "The term of years of Satan's power has been fulfilled, but other terrible things draw near. And for those who have sinned I was delivered over to death, that they may return to the truth and sin no more in order to inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness which is in heaven.{{r|Metzger|p=81}}</blockquote>

This text is not found in any other manuscript, but was partially quoted by [[Jerome]] in ''contra Pelagianos'' 2.15:
<blockquote>
et illi satisfaciebant dicentes: Saeculum istud iniquitatis et incredulitatis substantia (sub Satana?) est, quae non sinit per immundos spiritus veram Dei apprehendi virtutem: idcirco iamnunc revela iustitiam tuam.{{r|na26|p=148}} (''and they excused themselves, saying: This century is the essence of iniquity and unbelief, which does not allow the true power of God to be apprehended by unclean spirits: therefore, reveal your righteousness now.'')
</blockquote>

==History==
During a trip to [[Egypt]] in December 1906, [[Charles Lang Freer]] bought the manuscript from an antiques dealer in [[Cairo]], along with three other manuscripts.<ref name="fbm-ttrove">{{Cite book | first=Larry W. | last=Hurtado | author-link=Larry W. Hurtado | title=The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove | publisher=Brill | year=2007}}</ref>{{rp|1}} Biblical scholar [[Bruce M. Metzger]] states: "It is the only Greek Gospel manuscript of early date of which we know provenance. Though the exact spot in Egypt where it was found is not known, there are indications that it came from a monastery in the neighbourhood of the [[Pyramids of Giza|Pyramids]]."<ref>{{Cite book | first=Bruce Manning | last=Metzger | author-link=Bruce M. Metzger | title=The Early versions of the New Testament | page=117 | year=1977 | publisher=Clarendon Press | location=Oxford }}</ref> The writing style is closely related to the ''Codex Panopolitanus'' (Cairo Papyrus 10759), a manuscript containing portions of the [[Book of Enoch|first book of Enoch]], found in [[Akhmim]] in 1886.<ref name="sanders">{{Cite book | first=Henry A. | last=Sanders | title=The New Testament Manuscripts in the Freer Collection | year=1918 | publisher=The Macmillan Company | location=London | url=https://archive.org/stream/newtestamentmanu00sanduoft}}</ref>{{rp|3}} The initial discovery of the manuscript prompted numerous scholarly articles and studies, however only irregular attention has been paid to the manuscript in the latter half of the 20th century, to which biblical scholar Larry Hurtado could decry in 2006, "the general public today scarcely knows of [it]."{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=1}} Though all the manuscripts bought by Freer were considered significant, and gave [[America]] "an important standing in respect of Biblical manuscripts,"{{r|kenyon-rec|p=94}} the manuscript of the Gospels was deemed "by far the most important".<ref name="kenyon-rec">{{Cite book | first=Frederic George | last=Kenyon | title=Recent Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible: The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1932 | year=1933 | publisher=The British Academy | location=London}}</ref>{{rp|25}}

Details of Freer's acquisition and importance of the manuscript was announced by biblical scholar Henry Sanders at the general meeting of the Archaeological Institute and the American Philological Association, held in December 1907.{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=3}} He then went onto publish an initial article on it and the other manuscripts entitled ''New Manuscripts of the Bible from Egypt'', in the 12th volume of the American Journal of Archaeology, Issue 1.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Sanders | first=Henry A. | title=New Manuscripts of the Bible from Egypt | journal=American Journal of Archaeology | volume=12 | issue=1 | year=1908 | pages=49–55 | doi=10.2307/496857| jstor=496857 | s2cid=191361807 }}</ref>{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=3}} Within the article he provided photographs of some of the other manuscripts, and from the Freer Gospels codex a page from the Gospel of Mark, and the two painted covers. He also published the first transcription of a new ending to the Gospel of Mark, later to be named "[[#Freer Logion|the Freer Logion]]."{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=3}}

The manuscript was published in a full critical edition and separate facsimile volume by Sanders in 1912, of which Freer had to use his personal expenses to fund its publication, costing a total of $16,233.77 ($3,204.02 for the 994 copies of the critical edition; $13,029.75 for the 435 copies of the facsimile), or $496,714.87 in today's money.{{r|fbm-ttrove|p=36}}<ref>{{Cite web | title=CPI inflation calculator | url=https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1912?amount=16233.77}}</ref>

The codex is currently located in the [[Smithsonian Institution]] at the [[Freer Gallery of Art]] (06. 274) in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States]]. Complete image replicas of the codex are available from the Rights and Reproductions office at the [[Freer Gallery of Art]]. The manuscript is currently dated by the [[INTF]] to the 4th or 5th century.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Liste Handschriften | publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research | location=Münster | url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20032 | access-date=16 March 2013 }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Bible}}
* [[List of New Testament uncials]] 
* [[Biblical Manuscripts in the Freer Collection]] 
* [[Textual criticism]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Further reading==
* [[Caspar René Gregory]], [[iarchive:dasfreerlogion01greggoog#page/n5/mode/2up|''Das Freer-Logion'']] (Hinrichs: Leipzig 1908)
* [[Frederic G. Kenyon]], [[iarchive:https://archive.org/details/ourbibleandanci00kenygoog/page/n6/mode/2up|''Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts'']], (4th ed.), London 1939. 
*{{Cite thesis | last=Kearfott | first=Steven Joseph | title=Codex Washingtonianus as an Illustration of the need for the Discipline of Apparatus Criticism | year=2005 | hdl=10392/361 | type=PhD Thesis | publisher=Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | oclc=60679689}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_032 Colour images of the Codex] online at the [[Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts|CSNTM]]
* [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/ManuscriptsUncials.html#uW The ''Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism'' entry for W]

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