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In the Freer Collection at Washington. Acquired by Mr. C. L. Freer in Egypt in 1906.
It contains four Gospels in an order common in the West, Matthew, John, Luke, Mark. Its text varies in character, as if it had been copied from several different MSS. In Matthew, John i.1-v.12 (a quire added in the seventh century to replace one that had been damaged), an Luke viii.13 to the end, it is of the common Byzantine type, but the rest of John and Luke are Alexandrian, Mark i.1-v.30 is Western, and the rest of Mark is Caesarean.
This is folio 164a. It is the start of the gospel according to Mark (Mk.1.1-7).
It begins (rows 1 to 7):
ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΡΚΟΝ
The-good-news according-to MARK.ΑΡΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΥ ΙΥ ΧΥ [ΥΙΟΥ ΘΥ] overwritten
The beginning of-the good-news of-Jesus Christ [the]-son of-God.
ΚΑΘΩΣ ΓΕ|ΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ ΕΝ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΦΗΤΑΙΣ
ΙΔΟΥ [ΕΚΟΣ/ΙΕ ?] Α|ΠΟΣΤΕΛΛΩ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΝ ΜΟΥ ΠΡΟ ΠΡΟΣ|ΩΠΟΥ ΣΟΥ ΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΟΔΟΝ ΣΟΥ |
ΦΩΝΗ ΒΟΩΝΤΟΣ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΕΡΗΜΩ ΕΤΟΙΜΑΣΑ|ΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΟΔΟΩ ΚΥ
Just-as it-has-been-written in the-prophets.
Behold I-send my messenger before your-face who will-prepare the way of-you.
A voice crying-out in the wilderness, Prepare the-way of-[the]-Lord.
Note the use of Nomina sacra (overlined) in the places where they occur.
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