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Codex Alexandrinus, the oldest Greek witness of the Byzantine text in the Gospels, close to the Family Π (Luke 12:54-13:4). The earliest clear notable patristic witnesses to the Byzantine text come from early eastern church fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa (335 – c. 395), John Chrysostom (347 – 407), Basil the Great (330 – 379) and Cyril of Jerusalem (313 – 386).
John William Burgon was a famous advocate of the Byzantine priority theory. The Byzantine priority theory is a theory within Christian textual criticism held by a minority of textual critics. This view sees the Byzantine text-type as the New Testament's most accurate textual tradition, instead of the theorized Alexandrian or Western text types.
The group was discovered by Hermann von Soden in the late 19th century and designated by him with symbol K r. [1] According to Soden, the group is the result of an early 12th century attempt to create a unified New Testament text; the copying was controlled and the accuracy is unequalled in the history of the transmission of the New Testament text.
Currently it is considered to be one of the best witness of the Byzantine text-type, [7] and became the basis for The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition. [8] Wilbur N. Pickering believes subgroup 35 is the original text of the entire New Testament and has published The Greek New Testament According to Family 35. [9]
New Testament manuscripts in Greek can be categorized into five theoretical groups, [1] according to a schema introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in The Text of the New Testament. [2] The categories are based on how each manuscript relates to the various theorized text-types.
The text of the New Testament represents the Byzantine textual tradition and is close to the quotations of Chrysostom. The text of Paul's Letters is close to the Peshitta. The surviving manuscripts contain a considerable amount of Western textual elements, perhaps added later during the Ostrogothic Kingdom period. [48]
Family K x is a large group of the New Testament manuscripts. It belongs to the Byzantine text-type as one of the textual families of this group. It includes uncials , and although hundreds of minuscules , no early ones.
The Greek text of Acts in the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but in the Epistles it has been subjected to a thorough revision to bring it into conformity with the text of the exemplar of Minuscule 1739. The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related ...