In recent years, Darrell Post has worked to collate all manuscripts in John 11 and in this process he has just discovered a new member of Family 13 – Lectionary 1080 (Mount Athos, Great Lavra Monastery, A' 80, 13th century). Post tells me that the manuscript "was found to be a perfect match to Family 13 in its core group, in John 11:1-45. The lesson that covers 11:47-54 is of a slightly different pattern, but is a match to L547, also belonging to Family 13."
This is the third lectionary which has been identified as a family member:
In 1964, Jacob Geerlings analysed L547 in his study on The Lectionary Text of Family 13 according to Cod Vat Gr 1217 {Gregory 547) [ The Ferrar Lectionary] (Salt Lake City, 1964).
In 1982, Yvonne Burns published an article on L574, "A Newly Discovered Family 13 Manuscript and the Ferrar Lection System" in Studia Patristica 12 (pp. 278–299).
And now Post has identified a third lectionary, L1080, as a member of F13, but he points out that a full collation is necessary to see if it is a family member throughout the manuscript. Post sent me a chart which shows the pattern of readings in the chapter and also illustrates its close relationship to L547 in the lesson in 11:47–54.
Would think checking the Markan readings of the Lectionary would be the first point of call - the clearest definition of the F13 manuscripts is predominantly within that Gospel (due to the excellent scholarship of Kirsopp Lake et. al.), as opposed to just the one chapter in John. If there's F13 reading agreement in the GoMark, then the lectionary is likely a F13 one. If not, then it's likely an admixture of predom. Byzantine with F13 readings within certain chapters of the Gospels. :)
ReplyDeleteStephen, I checked Mark 10:36, which is within the lesson right before John 11:1-45, and I can see that L1080 reads τί θέλετε ποιήσω, which is the reading of Family 1 and Family 13, as opposed to τί θέλετε με ποιήσω.
DeleteThen going back one lesson earlier, Mark 8:28 in L1080 reads ἀπεκρίθησαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες, a Family 13 reading that is rare outside the family.
Much more work needs to be done, but what I see in Mark so far looks promising.
And just looking now at Mark 8:29, L1080 ends the verse with the Family 13 addition, "Son of the living God"
DeleteMark 2:4 reads ὅπου in the NA text, εΦ ω in the Majority Text and in Family 1, while Family 13 and a few others read εΦ ου. L1080 also reads εΦ ου.
DeleteExcellent work there, Darrell! Does definitely seem to at least have several F13 readings, so indeed is looking promising. The best F13 readings are found in Mark chapters 5-7. Find some there and I would conclude that yes, L1080 is indeed a F13 lectionary 🙂
DeleteL1080 is incomplete with only 119 pages that have survived. It will take some digging to see if any portions of Mark 5, 6, or 7 are among the surviving pages, and if what was selected for inclusion from these chapters happens to include verses with a distinctively F13 reading.
DeleteI did supply the indexing of verses on the INTF page for the images that show John 11:1-45.
I can confirm that in Mark 15:3, image 1830 at the INTF, that L1080 includes the insertion of αὐτος δε ουδεν απεκρινατο, a Family 13 addition that is not uniquely Family 13, but the insertion is not found in the MT or Family 1. And then in 15:4, L1080 reads πάλιν ἐπηρώτα αὐτὸν, the wording found in 03, 032, Family 13, 33 and a few others, as opposed to the reading of the Majority Text and Family 1.
DeleteI'll try and find time during my current European travels to sort out tagging all the images on INTF with the Markan portions. With only 119 pages (238 "pages" then, in in the modern sense), it won't take nearly as long as tagging a complete lectionary usually does :)
DeleteLooking at L1080 at image 440, column 2, third line up from the bottom, Matthew 6:25 in L1080 includes the insertion ἢ τί πίητε, also supported by 03, 032, Family 13, and 33, against 01 and Family 1 that excludes, and the Majority Text that reads καὶ τί πίητε.
DeleteStephen, It would seem that at the very least, significant portions of L1080 seem to align with Family 13. And whether or not L1080 passes your Mark 5-7 test, it is fair to say that Family 13 is found within readings of this manuscript. Even continuous text manuscripts sometimes present two different known patterns of variation in the same volume. Even if some of the lessons in L1080 turn out to present the MT and not F13, the larger question is how closely the F13 portions align with F13 readings.
A full collation needs to be done, as I mentioned at the start, but I can confirm that what was included in John 11:1-45 was not a mixed presentation of readings, but a purely F13 set of readings as shown in the chart provided.
Stephen, I will help with the indexing as I am able.
DeleteAbsolutely as you say, Darrell - we all aim to get that full "knowledge of documents" before passing final judgement :) I can however add another F13 only reading to be found in L1080 - Page IDs 1150-1160 (now indexed as 57v-58r), in Mark 8:31 it has the reading ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχιερέων καὶ πρεσβυτέρων. As this reading does not appear to occur outside F13 manuscripts (unless there's that one random minuscule not usually included which does!), this is further evidence that L1080 is indeed a F13 manuscript. :)
DeleteI failed to originally see that L1080 also has the reading καὶ ἀπο τὀτε ἤρξατο in Mark 8:31, a reading predominantly seen within the F13 mss along with L547, with W, 191. and some Sahidic mss in support. Again, further evidence of L1080's F13-ness :)
DeleteMark 6:2 has a Family 13 found in L1080
DeleteI've completed the indexing for the Markan verses evidenced in the lectionary. Should be a lot easier to check for readings now. I have noticed that whoever did the numbering of the folios put down 67 twice (IDs 1340-1370); I originally thought they were the same images put up twice, but they have completely different text on both. Don't know whether the second 67 was a page spliced into where it should have been, but this does mean that L1080 has 120 folios/240 pages, and not 119/238. :)
DeleteOne thing my chart does not reveal is the exclusivity of the Family 13 readings in John 11. So from my collation of 2,269 manuscripts, here are the readings that are the most distinctively Family 13 in John 11:1-45:
Delete11:16.26 αποθανωμεν] συναποθανωμεν Family 13: 13, 346, 543, 826, 828, L1080. Others: 011c, 1349, 1531, 2680, 2856*, L287, L1080, L1529
11:25.2 ειπεν] λεγει Family 13: 13, 69, 124, 346, 788, 826, 828, 983, 1054S, 1689, L547, L574, L1080. Others: 13 minuscules, 3 lectionaries.
11:30.22 εν] επι P45, P66, 038. Family 13: 13, 69, 124, 346, 788, 826, 828, 983, 1054S, 1689, L547, L574, L1080
11:41.23 + ο Family 13: 124, 346, 788, 826, 828, L574, L1080. Others: 047, 2462
11:42.2-4 εγω δε] καγω Family 13: 13, 69, 124, 346, 788, 826, 828, L547, L574, L1080
Another in John 12:2...
12:2.8-10: 10-εκει 8-δειπνον Family 13: 13, 69, 346, 543, 788, 826, 828, 1689, L574, L1080 Others: 038, 732, 1242, 2673 L1934
L1080 follows F13 in Mark 6:2 reading οἱ πολλοὶ ἀκούσαντες, and again in Mark 6:3, instead of reading ὁ τέκτων, ὁ υἱὸς, L1080 follows F13 reading του τεκτονος υἱὸς καὶ
DeleteAnd again in Mark 6:8 L1080 follows F13 reading ἀρωσιν instead of αἴρωσιν