According to Lee Martin McDonald (Acadia University, Canada)
Chapter 5 #8 of Before there was a Bible (2023, T & T Clark):
Erasmus of Rotterdam produced the first
published Greek text of the NT in 1516;
it was based primarily on two 12th-century
minuscule manuscripts that he found at
the university at Basel, Switzerland. In
subsequent editions, Erasmus included five
or six additional Greek manuscripts, but
none of them dated before the 10th century
common era. All translators and interpreters
of NT text know the importance of discerning
the most reliable biblical text (examples at
Mark 1:1 and Ephesians 5:21, 22). . .Given
the large number of variants in the ancient
NT texts, is it yet possible to produce a
universally approved text of the Church's
Bible? Undoubtedly church traditions,
councils (e.g. Nicaea in 325 c.e.) and
orthodoxy influenced which books we
have and to some extent limited the scope
of the intentional changes in these ancient
texts. (pages 142 - 143)
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