Manuscript Timeline Explorer
Explore selected New Testament witnesses, ancient versions, and printed editions across nearly two millennia. Traditional labels such as Byzantine, Alexandrian, Western, and Mixed provide convenient shorthand. Many manuscripts have mixed profiles, and current critical editions are eclectic rather than simple reproductions of one “Alexandrian” text.
The KJV is an English translation, not a Greek manuscript or edition. Its New Testament translators consulted several Textus Receptus editions. That printed tradition is broadly Byzantine but differs from the Byzantine manuscript tradition, modern Majority Text editions, and the Orthodox Patriarchal Text published in 1904. Modern eclectic editions weigh readings from many kinds of evidence case by case.
The display is a teaching sample. Dates are usually approximate, counts refer only to displayed entries, and text-type labels do not rank a witness’s value. None of the distinctions on this page changes the seventh-day Sabbath command or weekly sequence across the translations compared by the book.
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Selected Witnesses and Printed Editions
Selected entries across the transmission history