Family Π

From Textus Receptus

Family Π is a group of New Testament manuscripts. It belongs to the Byzantine text-type as one of the textual families of this group. Name of the family came from the symbol of Codex Petropolitanus) — Π. Hermann von Soden designated this group by symbol K^a. Soden included to this group codices: Cyprius (K), Petropolitanus (Π), 72, 114, 116, 178, 265, 389, 1008, 1009, 1079, 1154, 1200, 1219, 1346, 1398. Lake added to this group manuscripts: 489, 537, 652, 775, 796, 904, 1478, 1500, 1546, 1561, 1781, 1816. Soden also associated Codex Alexandrinus with this group. Wisse lists about 150 witnesses of the family, but majority of them belongs to this family only in some parts of the text. [1]

It is one of the most distinct of the Byzantine sub-groups. It is very old, the oldest Byzantine manuscript belongs to this family.

See also

• Family E
• Family K^r
• Family K^x
• Family 1424
• Family 1739

References

1 . F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, pp. 103-105. ISBN 0802819184, 9780802819185

Further reading

• Kirsopp Lake, "Family Π and the Codex Alexandrinus. The Text According to Mark", London 1936
• J. Geerlings, "Family Π in John" (Salt Lake City, 1963)
• Tommy Wasserman, “The Patmos Family of New Testament MSS and Its Allies in the Pericope of the Adulteress and Beyond”, A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism Vol. 7 (2002)