W - Washington Codex

5th century or late 4th
Includes Deuternomy, Joshua, Gospels, and Pauline epistles
Missing Mark 15:13-38 and John 14:25-16:7
Contains 4 types of text:

Alexandrian in Luke 1:1-8:12 and Gospel of John
byzantine in rest of Luke and in Matthew
Western in Mark 1:1-5:30
Caesarean in the rest of Mark

A lengthy addition following Mark 16:14 is not found in any other known manuscript:

And they replied saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan who by means of unclean spirits does not allow men to comprehend the true power of God; therefore reveal now Thy righteousness." Thus they spoke to Christ; and Christ answered them, "The limit of the years of the authority of Satan is fulfilled; but other horrors draw near and for the sake of them that sinned was I delivered unto death that they might return to the truth and sin no more; that they might inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness which is in heaven."

Manuscript bouth by Charles L. Freer from an Arab dealer named Ali in Gizeh near Cairo on Dec. 19, 1906
taken to Detroit and later deposited in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC
Had once been located in the Monastery of the Vinedresser situated near the third pyramid in Egypt until the monastery was destroyed between 1208 and 1441

Derived from Gospel Parallels, Ed. Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., 1979, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville

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