Old Latin: the Freising Fragments
Early translation · it r · 6th–7th century
Leaves of an Old Latin manuscript of the epistles, probably copied in Spain or Italy in the 6th or 7th century, later cut up to bind other books at Freising in Bavaria. With the León Palimpsest it is one of the two oldest manuscripts with 1 John 5:7.
Contents
Fragments of Paul’s epistles and the general epistles.
Where It Is Kept
Bavarian State Library, Munich (Clm 6436).
Cited For
- 1 John 5:7–8 “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one …”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
