Do text-types exists or not? Tregelles and others thought not, CBGM folk don’t like the term either, but most scholars in the 20th century were perfectly fine with it.
Martini (1977) surprised me with the following analysis of what text-types are:
“(a) A distinctive text-type is primarily not a group of manuscripts, but a set of readings.
(b) This set is limited; it does not cover all the readings of the NT. This view is entirely different from the silent presupposition which seems to be common today in textual treatments of the New Testament.”
And what surprised me more is that Martini is analysing Westcott-Hort at this point.
Martini, Carlo M. “Is There a Late Alexandrian Text of the Gospels?”. New Testament Studies 24 (1977-78): 289.
Martini (1977) surprised me with the following analysis of what text-types are:
“(a) A distinctive text-type is primarily not a group of manuscripts, but a set of readings.
(b) This set is limited; it does not cover all the readings of the NT. This view is entirely different from the silent presupposition which seems to be common today in textual treatments of the New Testament.”
And what surprised me more is that Martini is analysing Westcott-Hort at this point.
Martini, Carlo M. “Is There a Late Alexandrian Text of the Gospels?”. New Testament Studies 24 (1977-78): 289.