Minuscule 2816

Codex Basilensis A.N.IV.5, known as Minuscule 2816, α597, formerly labelled as 4^ap in all catalogs, but subsequently renumbered by Aland, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, paleographically had been assigned to the 15th century.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and General epistles, on 287 parchment leaves in elegant minuscule. The text is written in one column per page, 17-19 lines per page. It contains
Hardly written by several hands, and full of contractions.
The order of books; Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles.

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
In James 1:12 it has textual variant ο θεος along with the manuscripts 33^vid, 323, 945, 1739, vf, syr^p, against the Byzantine ο κυριος.
In Hebrews 3:3 it reads μεχρι τελους κατασχωμεν βεβαιαν for κατασχωμεν. The reading is supported only by it^c.

The manuscript belonged to the monastery of the Dominican Order. It was borrowed by Desiderius Erasmus and used by him in his edition of the Novum Testamentum. Sometimes he used some of its marginal readings instead of main text readings. In result some of its readings became a part of the Textus Receptus.
It was examined by Battier, Wettstein.
Currently the codex is located at the Basel University Library, at Basel.