Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (MS Nn.2.41)

Evidence state: documented fact

Late fourth- or fifth-century bilingual Greek-Latin New Testament manuscript especially important for its distinctive text of the Gospels and Acts.

Release Introduced

v50

Curation State

CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY

Short Title

Bezae (D / 05)

Evidence Classification

documented fact

Date Range

{
    "start_ce": 375,
    "end_ce": 499,
    "label": "late 4th or 5th century CE",
    "certainty": "Cambridge institutional dating"
}

Languages

[
    "Greek",
    "Latin"
]

Tradition Contexts

[
    "BIBLICAL_TEXTUAL_WITNESS",
    "CHRISTIAN_CONTEXT"
]

Identifiers

[
    {
        "scheme": "Gregory-Aland",
        "value": "05"
    },
    {
        "scheme": "Siglum",
        "value": "D"
    },
    {
        "scheme": "Cambridge shelfmark",
        "value": "MS Nn.2.41"
    }
]

Repository Note

Cambridge University Library; fully digitized by Cambridge Digital Library.

Contents Scope

Bilingual Gospel/Acts witness with notable textual distinctiveness. Passage-level claims must cite the actual folio/transcription.

Source Ids

[
    "SRC_CUL_CODEX_BEZAE"
]

Rights

{
    "image_state": "LINK_ONLY",
    "transcription_state": "LINK_ONLY_PENDING_RIGHTS_REVIEW",
    "local_host_state": "RIGHTS_REVIEW_REQUIRED"
}

Evidence Boundary

The manuscript's distinctive textual character is a catalog/context fact; no specific variant is attributed to Bezae until independently verified at the passage.