The Text and Paratext of Family 1 in Mark 16

In 1902 Kirsopp Lake published his groundbreaking study of Codex 1 of the Gospels and its Allies, a group of minuscules that became known as Family 1 (𝑓1). Still today, the dominant handedition Nestle-Aland 28 builds on Lake’s study of this family in Mark (assuming that Codex 1 is the ʻLeithandschriftʼ) although progress has been made in our understanding of Family 1 (especially in Matthew and John) and new members have been discovered and the significance of known witnesses accentuated (in particular Codex 2193). This article revisits the text of Family 1 in Mark 16 and the two major paratexts pertaining to the endings of Mark and the pericope adulterae
—peculiar hallmarks of this family.
    In regard to the text, I identify a new member of Family 1 in Mark and John —Museum of Oltenia, l 535 = Gregory-Aland 2954. Furthermore, I identify five characteristic and virtually unique family readings in Mark 16 and propose one new family reading where my reconstructed text deviates from Lake’s text (the text of minuscule 1). Finally, I suggest two possible double readings, where the family archetype may have had an additional (longer) reading in the margin.
    In the second part, I will demonstrate that several family branches preserve two editorial notes in Mark 16 and in the pericope adulterae from the archetype, a now-lost uncial which I date between 444–532 ce, and that the core member Codex 1582, on the other hand, contains additional marginalia which were likely not in the family archetype or an intermediate exemplar. Nevertheless Ephraim, the well-known scribe of 1582, likely copied his exemplar with great care, but he, or someone before him in this line of transmission, also added material from at least one other source outside of Family 1.