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The common characteristics of Family 13 were initially identified in a group of four witnesses; but the category has subsequently been extended, and some authorities list thirteen family members. HISTORY The first published account of Family 13 appeared in the year 1877 , in a book published by T. K. Abbott on behalf of his deceased friend (and discoverer of Family 13), William Ferrar . Before his death, Ferrar collated four Minuscules (Greek handwritten cursive texts) to definitively demonstrate that they all shared a common provenance. His work, '' A Collation Of Four Important Manuscripts '', would be the first scientific attempt to discover the lost Archetype of these four minuscules. The four minuscules Ferrar collated are: manuscript 13 (in the French National Library at Paris, France ), ms. 69 (in the Leicester Public Records Office , Leicester , UK), ms. 124 (in Vienna, Austria ), and ms. 346 (in the Ambrosian Library in Milan, Italy ). Ferrar transcribed three of these minuscules himself, accepting a previous transcription of 69 done by another person as trustworthy and adequate. The result of his work demonstrates that the members of Family 13 do indeed seem to share a common pattern of deviations from the accepted Greek texts of antiquity. In 1913 , Hermann Von Soden ’s work on the Greek New Testament seemed to confirm the assertion that this family descended from a common uncial archetype. By 1941 , Kirsopp and Silva Lake turned their attention to this important family of manuscripts. In their work on the Gospel Of Mark entitled ''Family 13 (The Ferrar Group): The Text According to Mark'', the family is characterized as consisting of 10 manuscripts (13, 69, 124, 346, 543, 788, 826, 828, 983, and 1689). In this essay, the Lakes thoroughly cover all that was then known about the provenance of each of these manuscripts. Many of the manuscripts proposed as belonging to Family 13 appear to have links to Calabria ; manuscripts 124 and 174 being recorded as having been written in Calabria, and most of the family members recording Menologion readings for Calabrian saints. Some family members have common supplemental geographical material that appears to derive from a 7th century original. In 1961 , Jacob Geerlings published three Monographs ( Matthew , Luke , and John ) on the family, although some scholars regard this work as flawed by serious methodological problems. Today, the family supposedly consists of thirteen members (13, 69, 124, 174, 230, 346, 543, 788, 826, 828, 983, 1689, and 1709), although the most recent work of Drs. Barbara Aland , Klaus Wachtel , and others at the ''Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' in Münster, Germany, imply that some of these family members are more similar to the majority Byzantine Text , and therefore should not be included in this family at all. In 1924 B H Streeter proposed that Family 13 should be classified as one branch of a distinct Caesarean Text-type , differing in a number of common respects from the then established Byzantine , Western and Alexandrian Text-type s. This view is supported by some, but not all, subsequent scholars. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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