Family 1 is the name given to a group of Greek New Testament minuscule manuscripts of the Gospels, identified by biblical scholar Kirsopp Lake. These manuscripts vary in date from the 12th to the 15th century. The group takes its name from minuscule codex 1, now in the Basel University Library, Switzerland. "Family 1" is also symbolized as ƒ1 in critical editions of the Greek New Testament. Textual-critic Hermann von Soden refers to the group as Iη. Initially named after minuscule 1, later studies have demonstrated that another minuscule, minuscule 1582, is likely a better candidate as a representation of the archetype from which the Family 1 manuscripts are descended.
Kirsopp Lake c. 1914
Minuscule 1: Folio 265 verso, portrait of John and Prochor
Minuscule 118: Showing verses Mark 16:1-9
Minuscule 1582: Icon of Mark the Evangelist before his Gospel starts
Kirsopp Lake was an English New Testament scholar, Church historian, Greek palaeographer, and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School.
Kirsopp Lake
St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, where Lake was curate 1897–1904.
Codex 1 (Luke 1:1–2), whose text Lake published in 1902 along with other readings from Family 1.
Academy building in Leiden University, where Lake was professor 1904–14.