Expanding the textual basis

Since only few manuscripts from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages have survived, it is indispensable to include additional sources. Therefore, the quotations from the New Testament by Christian authors of the period and the old translations of the text especially into Latin, Coptic, and Syriac have to be consulted. For the Coptic and Syriac tradition the INTF even has to carry out fundamental research without which the Editio Critica Maior would not be possible.