Codex Basilensis A.N.IV.5, known as Minuscule 2816 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α597 (in von Soden numbering), formerly labelled as 4ap in all catalogs, but subsequently renumbered by Aland, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, paleographically had been assigned to the 15th century.

[3] The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

Aland placed it in Category V.[4] In James 1:12 it has textual variant ο θεος (God) along with the manuscripts 33vid, 323, 945, 1739, vf, syrp, against the Byzantine ο κυριος (the Lord).

It was borrowed by Desiderius Erasmus and used by him in his edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516).

[2] Currently the codex is located at the Basel University Library (Cod.