Codex Ebnerianus

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 105
Gospel of John 1:5-10
Name	Codex Ebnerianus
Text	New Testament (except Rev)
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	20.5 by 16 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Codex Ebnerianus, Minuscule 105 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 257 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek language illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, though missing the Book of Revelation.^[2]

Formerly it was labeled by 105^e, 48^a, and 24^p.^[3]

Description

It is believed written in Constantinople at the start of the 12thC during the Comnenian Period.^[4] It is unique amongst surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts in that it places author portraits before each epistle, act and gospel, as opposed to just the gospels.^[5] This manuscript gives a good example of Greek calligraphy of the 12th century.

The text is written in 1 column per page, 27 lines per page, on 426 parchment leaves (20.5 by 16 cm). Capital letters in gold.^[3]

The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivory^[6] and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm).^[7] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, tables of the κεφαλαια, the τιτλοι, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the margin, the Ammonian Sections, but not o references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end, στιχοι, and the Nicene Creed all in gold.^[8] Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.^[8]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[9] It belongs to the textual family Family K^x.^[10]

History

The codex is named after Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach (1673–1752); a Nuremberg diplomat and German Enlightenment historian, who founded a library using his extensive collection.

Formerly it was labeled by 105^e, 48^a, and 24^p. In 1908 Gregory gave for it number 105.^[1]

It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10).^[11]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 501

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 52. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up. 
2. ^ The harmony of the Gospels. With an account of ancient MSS. and of the various tr. of the Scriptures Oxford University 1863
3. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 152. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n165/mode/2up. 
4. ^ It was once believed to have been written in 1391
5. ^ Cecelia Meredith,The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus; Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29, (1966)
6. ^ p. 304; Thomas Hartwell; An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814; Original from the New York Public Library
7. ^ Thomas Hartwell Horne An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures Published by E. Littell, 1825
8. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 208. 
9. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
10. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 54. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
11. ^ K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.