William Hugh Ferrar (1826–1871), a

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, was a classical

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scholar at

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. In 1868, Ferrar discovered that four medieval manuscripts. Namely minuscules 13, 69, 124, and 346, were closely related texts. They are descendants of an archetype from Calabria in southern

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. Now they are known as ''Ferrar Group'' or ''

Family 13 Family 13, also known as the Ferrar Group (''ƒ'', von Soden calls the group I), is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, dating from the 11th to the 15th centuries, which share a distinctive pattern of variant readings — especially placing the pa ...

''.W. H. Ferrar
at the Encyclopædia Britannica

Works

* W. H. Ferrar
''A Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin'' (London, 1869)
* W. H. Ferrar, '' A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels'', ed. T. K. Abbott (Dublin: Macmillan & Co., 1877) - edited posthumoustly.

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1826 births 1871 deaths Academics of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-academic-bio-stub

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