The Codex Curiensis known also as Fragmenta Curiensia, designated by a² or 16 (in Beuron system), is a 5th-century AD

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manuscript of the

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. The text, written on

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, is a version of the

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. The manuscript contains the fragments of the

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, on exactly two parchment leaves.

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, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 296. It contains a fragments of the Gospel of Luke 11:11-29; 13:16-34.

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was the first to suggest that these fragments belong to the same manuscript. They were first discovered by Hidber, professor of Berne, then described by E. Ranke. The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the

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in ''itala'' recension. Currently it is housed at the Rhätisches Museum (Clm 6436) in

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