And I have gathered some material on the W-H recension.
First, let me show you that this is their term and their claim!
the Westcott-Hort Recension
When discussing in textual circles, we can say directly what we are dealing with the Westcott-Hort recension. That was their accurate claim, and was well understood, even if today's Critcal Text seminarian "scholars" want to hide the simple truth.
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Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, Sometime Bishop of Durham
Arthur Westcott
https://books.google.com/books?id=G_JDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144
Westcott: Oct 12, 1853
"As to our proposed recension of the New Testament text, our object would be, I suppose, to prepare a text for common and general use...With such an end in view, would it not be best to introduce only certain emendations into the received text, and to note in the margin such as seem likely or noticeable - after Griesbach's manner"
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St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans: with notes (1859)
Charles John Vaughan (1816-1897)
http://archive.org/stream/gyprsrwmaouspis00paulgoog...
"Mr Westcott has thus allowed me to anticipate (with regard to this Epistle) the publication of that complete recension of the text of the New Testament, on which he has been for some time engaged."
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Blurb from Vaughan's book (1870)
https://books.google.com/books?id=yZFUAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA39
"This volume contains the Greek Text of the Epistle to the Romans as settled by the Rev. B. F. Westcott, D. D. , for his complete recension of the Text of the New Testament."
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St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians,(1866)
Joseph Barbour Lightfoot (1828-1889)
https://books.google.com/books?id=N8ECAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR8
"the promise of assistance from my friends the Rev. B. F. Westcott and the Rev. F. J. A. Hort, who are engaged in a joint recension of the Greek Testament"
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Life and letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., D.C.L.: sometime bishop of Durham, Volume 1 (1870)
Arthur Westcott
https://books.google.com/books?id=iCI3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA331
"The text which Dr. Vaughan has published ... represents in the main my recension .. We [with Hort] have now revised the text together.."
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Blurb to W-H GNT (1881)
https://books.google.com/books?id=pGAOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA572
"Nowhere else in the compass of a single volume of moderate size will the student of our day find so complete and satisfactory a recension of the Greek Testament." Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.
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Extracts from foreign criticisms of Westcott and Horts' Greek text of the New Testament [first publ. in 1881].1885
Orello Cone
https://books.google.com/books?id=gp4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6
Dr Carl Bertheau, of Hamburg, in the Theologische Literaturzeitung...
The editors "have produced a new and entirely independent recension of the text of the New Testament..."
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This is a good book of extracts for seeing how totally duped many of the "scholars" were by Hort's gibberish.
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review (1884)
"The New Covenant" and its Critics
Review of English version by Henry Prentiss Forbes (1849-1913)
John Wesley Hanson (1823-1901)
https://books.google.com/books?id=_gcSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA476
the Greek text from which "The New Covenant" is rendered. It is substantially and almost entirely from the recension of Westcott and Hort .."
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The Contemporary Review (1903)
Review of Life and Letters
https://books.google.com/books?id=mwI4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA901
"striking achievements of his life--the recension of the Greek Text of the New Testament"
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 79 (1922)
Order of Events in Matthew and Mark
J. F. Springer
https://books.google.com/books?id=vKTNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA333
"Westcott and Hort's recension of the Greek NT" - (1922)
Bonus: Springer discussing Markan priority nonsense:
"history teaches us that a consensus of experts is by no means always in the right"
https://books.google.com/books?id=yMg7LRMd4LsC&pg=PA113
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The Papyri and New Testament Textual Criticism (1986)
Jacobus Hendrik Petzer
https://books.google.com/books?id=Di8jYgnbeO4C&pg=PA24
"There is, however, not enough historical evidence to replace Westcott and Hort’s recension with a new one, while the former had been proven not to be relevant any more"
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Some additional notes
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WESTCOTT-HORT RECENSION and VATICANUS
where did the Westcott-Hort recension differ from Vaticanus?
https://www.facebook.com/.../permalink/724129361007400/
This leads to other studies, such as the Vaticanus-primacy nature of the W-H text.
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Stephen C. Carlsen
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/Manuscript-2427.pdf
"Westcott and Hort were not the first to base a critical text largely on B. Some twenty years earlier. Philipp Buttmann (1860) published a recension of the Greek New Testament based on Cardinal Mai’s edition of B (1857, 1859)."
This earlier Buttmann recension text was actually 1856:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu53300777;view=1up;seq=5
Any possible relationship or connection or use of the Philipp Carl Johann Ludwig Buttmann text to W-H 1881 (and the text distributed to the revision committee in 1871) has not been studied, afaik.
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One of the better discussions of the W-H history
While Latinos Slept (2005)
Gary Lamore
https://books.google.com/books?id=-0e1NG2PpZwC&pg=PA11
While Men Slept. . .: A Biblical and Historical Account of the New Universal Christianity (2002)
Kirby F. Fannin
https://books.google.com/books?id=9yFfFQVtmqUC
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This Westcott-Hort recension is the underlying base of the Alphabet Soup versions, NIV, NAS, HCSB, ESV, etc. The textus corruptus today is essentially the same textual recension, the singular significant change being the rejection by most editions today of the absurd Western non-interpolations. One of many of Hort's sick textual jokes.
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Pure Bible Forum in 2018 uses 2015 Facebook post for this info
Westcott Hort recension
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/the-westcott-hort-recension-source-for-modern-versions-and-critical-texts.848/#post-1797
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Psalm 119:140
Thy word is very pure:
therefore thy servant loveth it.