Family 1

Family 1 is the name given to a group of Greek New Testament minuscule manuscripts of the Gospels, identified by biblical scholar Kirsopp Lake.

The group takes its name from minuscule codex 1, now in the Basel University Library, Switzerland.

[9]: 145  Hence though minuscule 2542 is considered a Family 1 member at least in Luke chapters 10 and 20,[9]: 144  in Matthew it is a purely Byzantine manuscript, despite several singular readings.

[9]: 144-145 Alison Sarah Welsby, in her 2012 doctoral thesis, identified the ƒ1 manuscripts in John as the minuscules 1, 22, 118, 131, 205abs (2886), 205, 209, 565, 872, 884, 1192, 1210, 1278, 1582, 2193, 2372, and 2713, also coinciding with Anderson's view that 1582 was a better ƒ1 witness than 1.

Accordingly scholars use these colophons along with other arguments as evidence that the original Gospel of Mark ended at verse 8, with verses 9-20 being added on later:[12] ἔν τισι μὲν τῶν ἀντιγράφων ἕως ὦδε πληροῦται ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἕως οὖ καὶ Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου ἐκανόνισεν· ἐν πολλοῖς δὲ καὶ ταῦτα φέρεται.

A similar scholion appears in the minuscules 22, 1192, and 1210: ἔν τισι τῶν ἀντιγράφων ἕως ὦδε πληροῦται ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἐν πολλοῖς δὲ καὶ ταῦτα φέρεται.

"[14]: 335 Biblical scholar Burnett Hillman Streeter, working largely on the basis of data supplied by Lake, proposed that ƒ1, along with Codex Koridethi (Θ), Family 13 (ƒ13), the minuscules 28, 565, 700, the Armenian and Georgian versions, and later on also Codex Washingtonianus (W), were the remnants of what he labelled the Caesarean text, differing in a number of common respects from the then established Byzantine, Western and Alexandrian text-types.

[9]: 104 In Anderson's study of minuscule 1582, she demonstrates Family 1 (in Matthew at least) does represent a text which was available to Origen at Caesarea, especially in several of the marginal notes include in the manuscript.

"[9]: 77 According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), the group profiles of the Lake's Family in Luke 1, 10, and 20 are: A comparison of the texts of the four main Lake manuscripts (1, 118, 131, and 209) with the text of the Textus Receptus, shows there are 2243 variants in ƒ1 from the Textus Receptus in the sections comprising Matthew 1-10, Matthew 22-Mark 14, Luke 4-23, John 1-13, and John 18; 1731 of these are found in codices 118 and 209, and 209 has 214 more variants not found in 118.