Family 13 (the Ferrar group)
A group of related Greek manuscripts first noticed by William Hugh Ferrar of Dublin (published 1877), most of them copied in southern Italy and Sicily. They put the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53–8:11) after Luke 21:38, and the angel and the bloody sweat (Luke 22:43–44) after Matthew 26:39.
Contents
The Gospels. The main members are 13, 69, 124, 346, 543, 788, 826, and 828.
Where It Is Kept
Minuscule 13: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Minuscule 69 (the Leicester Codex): Leicestershire Record Office.
- Minuscule 13 in the INTF Virtual Manuscript Room ›
- Minuscule 69 in the INTF Virtual Manuscript Room ›
Cited For
- Mark 16:9–20 “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils …”
- John 7:8 “not up yet”
Minuscules are written in the small joined-up hand that replaced capitals from the 9th century on; most Greek manuscripts are minuscules. They are numbered 1, 2, 3, and so on. A family (f¹, f¹³) is a group copied from a common ancestor; ᵐᵍ means the reading is in the margin.
