Guide
Underlying data
This grouping tool is based on data published in
Novum Testamentum Graecum – Editio Critica Maior: Parallel Pericopes, ed. by H. Strutwolf et K. Wachtel Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft 2011
This volume comprises full collations of 159 manuscripts in 41 parallel pericopes, including two from the Gospel of John and one from 1 Corinthians. The apparatus lists a total of 1568 variant passages. The database for the present tool is restricted to the three Synoptic Gospels, i.e. to 156 manuscripts at 1405 variant passages.
Note that only the text of the first hand is included for the present application; texts of other hands are not included.
The default settings: Ms. 13 in the Synoptic Gospels, simple grouping, further relations shown
If you click GO! with the default parameters, you will get a list of manuscripts grouped with manuscript Gregory-Aland (GA) 13 on the basis of the Parallel Pericopes collations for the three Synoptic Gospels according to the simple grouping criterion with further relations shown.
The simple grouping criterion includes all manuscripts that agree with ms. 13 more often than ms. 13 agrees with the majority text. In the output related to the default parameters, the first line below the header says that ms. 13 supports the majority text (MT) at 86.1% of the test passages for the Synoptics. The mss. agreeing with 13 at more than 86.1% are listed in the first column with a running number, ordered by descending percentages of agreement.
“Further relations” are relations of the comparator manuscripts listed
in the first column with manuscripts not grouped with ms. 13. If a comparator ms. agrees more
often with another ms. or other mss. than with 13, the one with the highest agreement is listed
in the second column of the output.
826, the first entry in the first column, is most closely related with 13, agreeing at 97.7%
of the variant passages. There is no entry in the second column, because no ms. agrees more
often with 826 than 13 or any manuscript grouped with 13. The seven entries that follow are
also closely related to 13. These may have closer relations with other mss. grouped with 13,
but apart from these there is no ms. that agrees more often with 543, 346, 828, 788, 983, 69
and 124 than 13.
35, following in position 9, is not known to be affiliated to family 13. These manuscripts
probably share all the Byzantine readings in 13. The entry in the second column in position 9
says that there is at least one manuscript that agrees more often with 35 than 13 and the
manuscripts grouped with 13: 18.
Open a second window in your browser,
go to Manuscript Clusters,
replace 13 with 35,
click GO!
The resulting list shows clearly that 35 represents a group without a significant relationship with 13. The first entry shows an agreement of 99.4% with 18, and the percentages in the following positions are not much lower. In fact, 18 and 35 were included as representatives of a Byzantine subgroup known as Kr.
Ms. 13 in the Synoptic Gospels, simple grouping, further relations hidden
Return to the input form in the second browser window,
enter manuscript 1 again,
select “Hide Further Relations”,
click GO!
The output shows all manuscripts that have no closer relative than 13 apart from all the manuscripts grouped with 13 –– those which do not fit this criterion are filtered out.
Ms. 13 in the Synoptic Gospels, strict grouping, further relations shown
Open a third window in your browser,
go to Manuscript Clusters,
select “Strict Grouping”,
click GO!
The strict grouping criterion includes all manuscripts that agree with ms. 13 more often than ms. 13 and a comparator ms. agree with the MT. The list shows eight manuscripts that meet this criterion with respect to ms. 13 in the Parallel Pericopes apparatus.
No further relations appear even though “Show Further Relations” was selected. Hence there is no manuscript included in the test passage collations that agrees more often with one of the family 13 core members than these agree with each other.
Note that there are two columns of running numbers now. The first refers to the simple grouping criterion, the second to the strict criterion. Here they are identical, because in this instance the sequence is the same according to both criteria.
Ms. 33 in the Synoptic Gospels, strict grouping, further relations shown
Open a fourth window in your browser,
go to Manuscript Clusters,
enter 33
select “Strict Grouping”,
click GO!
The resulting list shows two manuscripts meeting the strict grouping criterion: 892 and 019. However, they both have closer relationships with manuscripts not grouped with 33: 03 and 037. Note that the second running number with 019 is 7, which points to the position of 019 in the list of manuscripts grouped with 33 according to the simple criterion.
Ms. 33 in the Synoptic Gospels, simple grouping, further relations shown
Open a fifth window in your browser,
go to Manuscript Clusters,
enter 33
click GO!
You see 019 at rank 7 in this list, while position of 892 remains the same as in the fourth browser window.
If you are interested in groupings based on collation results for a single gospel, select the appropriate radio button.