does Brent Nongbri accept the ms 1739 colophon reference to Origen as authentic?

[Steven Avery]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_1739

Bob Waltz
http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1501-2000.html#m1739

Brent Nongbri (2020)
https://brentnongbri.com/2020/06/06/a-question-about-the-initial-text-of-new-testament-documents/
A Question About the “Initial Text” of New Testament Documents

although I guess the earliest surviving immaterial text might be considered 1739, perhaps pushing things back to the time of Origen.

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At an intuitive level, I somehow want the age of the manuscripts (or even the age of the text, as in the case of 1739) to have some kind of role in the process.

 

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/3262083?seq=1
Codices 1582, 1739, and Origen
K. W. Kim
Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Jun., 1950), pp. 167-175 (9 pages)

 

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The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans: A Study in Textual and Literary Criticism, Issues 42-43 (1977)
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