Codex Ebnerianus
From Textus Receptus
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.[1] Formerly it was labeled by 105e, 48a, and 24p.[2]
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Description
It is believed written in Constantinople at the start of the 12thC during the Comnenian Period.[3] 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.[4] This manuscript gives a good example of Greek calligraphy of the 12th century.
It is written in 1 column per page, 27 lines per page, on 426 parchment leaves (20.5 by 16 cm). Capital letters in gold.[2]
The book itself was bound in silver inlaid with ivory[5] and comprises 426 leaves of vellum in quarto (20.5 by 16 cm).[6] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, tables of κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, κεφαλαια, the Ammonian Sections, but not the Eusebian Canons, subscriptrions, στιχοι, and the Nicene Creed all in gold.[7] Synaxarion and Menologion were added by Joasaph, a calligraphist, in 1391, who also added John 8:3-11 at the end of that Gospel.[7]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[8] It belongs to the textual family Family Kx.[9]
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.
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 10).[10]
