Rahlfs 1219

Washington Manuscript of the Psalms/Rahlfs 1219
Freer Gallery
An image of page 109 showing Psalm 74:2-75:3a
Date	~400-650 CE
Material	Parchment
Condition	Fragmentary, Decayed
Contents	Psalm 1:4-146:9a, 149:2b-151:6; Odes 1:1-6a
Discovered	Egypt
Old Testament, Septuagint Manuscripts, Septuagint, Uncial

The Washington Manuscript of the Psalms (Washington MS II), designated as Rahlfs 1219 (in the Rahlfs numbering of Septuagint manuscripts), van Haelst 83 (in the Van Haelst catalogue numbers of Septuagint manuscripts), is a Greek Septuagint (an old translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek along with other works included in its canon) manuscript containing the text of Psalm 1:4-146:9a, 149:2b-151:6, plus the first 6 verses of the book of Odes, written on parchment which has survived in a fragmentary condition.^[1]: 37 Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 5th Century CE.^[2]: 107

The manuscript is one of the six biblical manuscripts purchased by industrialist Charles Lang Freer at the beginning of the 20th century, now housed at the Freer Gallery of Art in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..