Principal Component Analysis
Text und Textwert collations
Gospel of John ch. 1-10

Wieland Willker, Feb. 2006

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For an introduction of Principal Component Analysis, check my previous analysis of the Gospel of John.
This time I used the Text&Textwert collations of the Gospel of John ch. 1-10, kindly provided by Klaus Wachtel.

Note that this analysis is not based on any subjective rating, but is just the result of entering the MSS-goups for each variant reading!


1. All MSS, but without [01, 05] which form a close "Western" group, far outside the main "cloud":
The first two principal axes:


Same as above, but axes 2 and 3:


2. Removing the Alexandrian MSS, so getting "Byzantine" only:

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