Codex Ebnerianus, Minuscule 105 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 257 (Soden), is a Greek language illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, though missing the Book of Revelation.The harmony of the Gospels. With an account of ancient MSS. and of the various tr. of the Scriptures Oxford University 1863
Formerly it was labeled as 105e, 48a, and 24p.
Description It is now believed to have been written in Constantinople at the start of the 12th century, during the Comnenian Period.It was once believed to have been written in 1391 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.Cecelia Meredith,The Illustration of Codex Ebnerianus ; Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 29, (1966) This manuscript gives a good example of Greek calligraphy of the 12th century. The manuscript is marked with Georgian quire signatures, but was still in Constantinople in the 16th 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.
The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivoryp. 304; Thomas Hartwell, An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814; Original from the New York Public Library and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm).Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures Published by E. Littell, 1825 It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, tables of the , the , numbers of the at the margin, the Ammonian Sections, but not o references to the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions at the end, , and the Nicene Creed all in gold. Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. It belongs to the textual family Family Kx.
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 as 105e, 48a, and 24p. In 1908 Gregory gave it the number 105.
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10).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.
See also List of New Testament minuscules Textual criticism Minuscule 501
References
External links MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10 In the Bodleian Libraries Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10 Images available in Digital Bodleian