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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Robert B. Waltz wrote:

> I've recently been wondering about 2427. It's a manuscript of Mark
> (Aland dates it as XIV century) that has the peculiar property of
> standing closer to B than any other manuscript (including Aleph,
> according to my statistics).
> 
> I saw a reference in a commentary once claiming that this manuscript
> was of questionable authenticity. I can imagine a reason for the
> question: What is a near-copy of B doing being made in the fourteenth
> century? But this doesn't seem to me to be reason enough to really
> cast doubt on it. Does anyone know anything about why this ms. is
> controversial?

I cannot provide any first-hand data, but I have heard that it probably is
a fairly servile copy of B itself, probably made in the Vatican library
(where B likely was before its earliest cataloging at a slightly later
date).  What might be more significant is that no other copies of B seem
to have been made from the time of its composition until the point of MS
2427.

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Professor of Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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