Altered, Not Antique: The Latinized Greek Text of 1 Corinthians in GA 629

Abstract The Greek New Testament manuscript GA 629 is a fourteenth-century bilingual codex with the Latin and Greek texts of Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline epistles. It has been selected as a witness in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) for every book it contains because of its numerous non-majority readings, but little has been written about the manuscript beyond scattered remarks that its text often conforms to Latin conventions. This article analyzes the text of GA 629 in 1 Corinthians in order to demonstrate how its Greek text has been influenced by the Latin version and to evaluate its place and presentation in the ECM and its importance within the textual history of the New Testament. These textual observations shed light on the production of the manuscript. It demonstrates that GA 629 is not a late witness to an ancient form of the New Testament but a modified form of Byzantine New Testament tradition brought into alignment with the Latin text of the manuscript.